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Episode 1545 - Assessing physical activity & behavior change in older adults #PTonICE Daily Show
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- Fitness
In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, Modern Management of the Older Adult lead faculty Alex Germano discusses how healthcare providers can learn to assess patients' readiness to change when becoming more active, barriers they perceive to exercise and confidence in implementing a regular exercise program. Alex challenges providers to become a "guide to self-efficacy" with patients to increase their regular physical activity.
Take a listen to learn how to better serve this population of patients & athletes.
If you're looking to learn more about live courses designed to better serve older adults in physical therapy or our online physical therapy courses, check our entire list of continuing education courses for physical therapy including our physical therapy certifications by checking out our website. Don't forget about all of our FREE eBooks, prebuilt workshops, free CEUs, and other physical therapy continuing education on our Resources tab.
EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION
00:00 INTRO
What's up everybody, welcome back to the PT on ICE Daily Show. Before we jump into today's episode, let's chat about Jane, our show sponsor. Jane makes the Daily Show possible and is the practice management software that so many folks here at ICE utilize. The team at Jane knows how important it is for your patients to get the care they need and with this in mind, they've made it really easy and convenient for patients to book online. One tip that has worked well for a lot of practices is to make the booking button on your website prominent so patients can't miss it. Once clicked, they get redirected to a beautifully branded online booking site and from there, the entire booking process only takes around two minutes. After booking an appointment, patients get access to a secure portal where they can conveniently manage their appointments and payment details, add themselves to a waitlist, opt in to text and email reminders and fill out their intake form. If you all are curious to learn more about online booking with Jane, head over to jane.app slash physical therapy, book their one-on-one demo with a member of their team and if you're sure to use the code ICEPT1MO when you sign up, that gives you a one-month grace period that gets applied to your new account. Thanks everybody. Enjoy today's show.
01:33 ALEX GERMANO
Good morning, Instagram. Welcome to the PT on ICE Daily Show brought to you by the Institute of Clinical Excellence. Happy Wednesday and welcome to today's segment of Jerry on ICE. My name is Alex Germano. I'm a member within the older adult division. We are going to talk about a recent article that came out talking about how to address inadequate physical activity in our patients, especially older adults. The older adult division continues to charge across the country this fall with courses in Charlotte, North Carolina, Fort Collins, Colorado. That's happening this weekend. You can catch us in Oklahoma City, Bellevue, Washington and Falls Church, Virginia to round out September. Head to the PT on ICE.com website to learn more about our current course offerings. It does not seem like we're slowing down coming into the end of this year.
02:31 INCREASING PATIENT'S PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
I know it seems a little lame to come on the podcast and talk about increasing our patients' physical activity clinically. I mean, I say this is a little lame because I think it's something like we're like, duh, we all know. We need to get our patients more physically active. And so it doesn't seem like the coolest thing we can talk about if it's a problem we all know about. But I thought this article added a lot of value to this conversation. Clinically I've really gotten to this point as a therapist where I believe that most of my patients' ailments, their balance concerns, the unsteadiness they have, the lack of endurance they have, the lack of strength could all really be fixed by joining a gym or performing some type of meaningful fitness in
In today's episode of the PT on ICE Daily Show, Modern Management of the Older Adult lead faculty Alex Germano discusses how healthcare providers can learn to assess patients' readiness to change when becoming more active, barriers they perceive to exercise and confidence in implementing a regular exercise program. Alex challenges providers to become a "guide to self-efficacy" with patients to increase their regular physical activity.
Take a listen to learn how to better serve this population of patients & athletes.
If you're looking to learn more about live courses designed to better serve older adults in physical therapy or our online physical therapy courses, check our entire list of continuing education courses for physical therapy including our physical therapy certifications by checking out our website. Don't forget about all of our FREE eBooks, prebuilt workshops, free CEUs, and other physical therapy continuing education on our Resources tab.
EPISODE TRANSCRIPTION
00:00 INTRO
What's up everybody, welcome back to the PT on ICE Daily Show. Before we jump into today's episode, let's chat about Jane, our show sponsor. Jane makes the Daily Show possible and is the practice management software that so many folks here at ICE utilize. The team at Jane knows how important it is for your patients to get the care they need and with this in mind, they've made it really easy and convenient for patients to book online. One tip that has worked well for a lot of practices is to make the booking button on your website prominent so patients can't miss it. Once clicked, they get redirected to a beautifully branded online booking site and from there, the entire booking process only takes around two minutes. After booking an appointment, patients get access to a secure portal where they can conveniently manage their appointments and payment details, add themselves to a waitlist, opt in to text and email reminders and fill out their intake form. If you all are curious to learn more about online booking with Jane, head over to jane.app slash physical therapy, book their one-on-one demo with a member of their team and if you're sure to use the code ICEPT1MO when you sign up, that gives you a one-month grace period that gets applied to your new account. Thanks everybody. Enjoy today's show.
01:33 ALEX GERMANO
Good morning, Instagram. Welcome to the PT on ICE Daily Show brought to you by the Institute of Clinical Excellence. Happy Wednesday and welcome to today's segment of Jerry on ICE. My name is Alex Germano. I'm a member within the older adult division. We are going to talk about a recent article that came out talking about how to address inadequate physical activity in our patients, especially older adults. The older adult division continues to charge across the country this fall with courses in Charlotte, North Carolina, Fort Collins, Colorado. That's happening this weekend. You can catch us in Oklahoma City, Bellevue, Washington and Falls Church, Virginia to round out September. Head to the PT on ICE.com website to learn more about our current course offerings. It does not seem like we're slowing down coming into the end of this year.
02:31 INCREASING PATIENT'S PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
I know it seems a little lame to come on the podcast and talk about increasing our patients' physical activity clinically. I mean, I say this is a little lame because I think it's something like we're like, duh, we all know. We need to get our patients more physically active. And so it doesn't seem like the coolest thing we can talk about if it's a problem we all know about. But I thought this article added a lot of value to this conversation. Clinically I've really gotten to this point as a therapist where I believe that most of my patients' ailments, their balance concerns, the unsteadiness they have, the lack of endurance they have, the lack of strength could all really be fixed by joining a gym or performing some type of meaningful fitness in
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