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Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional

North Augusta, South Carolina
I am a physical therapist and blogger from Augusta, GA. I specialize in othopaedic manual physical therapy techniques and am a faculty member at the Medical College of Georgia.
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#DPTSTUDENT TOPIC FOR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013: INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND COLLABORATION by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Last week, when we discussed the new proposed APTA vision we discussed several of the vision elements included within it. We briefly touched on interprofessional education ... Read on »
#DPTStudent Topic for Wednesday, February 5, 2013: Beyond Vision 2020- Can We Transform Society? by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Since 2000 the APTA has been making strides towards Vision 2020, a vision which outlined goals for the profession of physical therapy to reach by the year 2020. These goal ... Read on »
#DPTSTUDENT CHAT TOPIC FOR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013: SHOULD WE BE CALLED DOCTORS? by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine By the time we have the letters DPT after our name we will all have gone through four years of undergraduate education plus three years of graduate level education that is ... Read on »
The Ultimate Log ‘N Blog for PT app! by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I wish I had this newly released app last week during CSM 2013! Moves by Protogeo Oy , brings a sweet new movement tracker to the field of personal data monitoring. With ... Read on »
#CSM2013 by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine #CSM2013 is here! PT Think Tank and it’s contributors are all in attendance. We plan to provide highlights, quick summaries of sessions, and other insights right he ... Read on »
#CSM2011 Acute Care Lecture: Our Foundation and Our Future? by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine #CSM2013 has arrived! Pre-conference courses are in full swing and the regular section programming begins tomorrow morning. Acute care practice received press online and d ... Read on »
#DPTstudent Chat Topic for Wednesday, January 23, 2013: Are We More Than Just Ultrasound and Tiger... by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In a follow up to Dr. Eric Robertson’s post last week, “There’s no Such Thing as Bad Press” about the way Physical Therapists have been defined by the media and even how s ... Read on »
#PhysicalTherapy Hashtag Project 2.0 by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine With #CSM2013 only days away, #physicaltherapist twitter chat relating to the conference will continue to increase. Quotes, links, pictures, and thoughts relating to #CMS2 ... Read on »
There’s No Such Thing as Bad Press by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Succès de scandale ! Well, physical therapy didn’t exactly have a sex tape this week, but over the past several days, two notably large media outlets have featured PT ... Read on »
#DPTstudent Chat Topic for January 16th: APTA’s CSM Conference- What’s in it for the... by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Image courtesy { pranav } via Flickr Yeah, this is were CSM is! Next week, many DPT students are jet setting across the country to sunny to San Diego fo ... Read on »
#AcutePT helps ICU save $818,000 per year! by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In a recent post So, you think you can walk? I outlined some of the evidence, rationale, logic, and decision making involved in acute care physical therapist practice. I d ... Read on »
Specializing in the Field of Physical Therapy- #DPTstudent Topic for Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine #DPTstudent Tweetchat topic for January 9th, 2013: Specialization in Physical Therapy Once we graduate from PT school and have those three amazing letters of DPT after ... Read on »
Official CSM 2013 iOS App Available by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine CSM 2013 is quickly approaching, is your itinerary planned? (I know you’ve been networking before the conference) Here in time to help is the APTA CSM 2013 App . Basi ... Read on »
So, you think you can walk? #AcutePT by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine All you do is walk people! Are you going to walk Mrs. Smith? Are you getting Mr. Johnson up? You don’t have to think in acute care! In my opinion, the role of the ... Read on »
New vision & role for the physical therapist in athlete management #sportsPT by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The following post was written by Paul Mitalski. Paul is not a physical therapist, but has vision for the where the profession of physical therapy can go in the realm of s ... Read on »
STUDENT MENTORSHIP- #DPTSTUDENT TOPIC FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012 by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Does your DPT program have an organized mentorship/buddy program? How has this helped you? Are you a mentor to someone in a class below you? What do you do help them and m ... Read on »
How to Survive Finals – #DPTstudent topic for Wednesday, December 5, 2012 by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It’s that time in the semester again where you can’t seem to drink enough coffee, you quiz yourself in your sleep, and you don’t think that there is any way for this much ... Read on »
#DPTStudent Tweetchat Analytics by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The inaugural  #DPTStudent tweetchat took place this past Wednesday, Nov 28. It was a huge success! How do you measure success? With these analytics of course, taken f ... Read on »
Twitter for Students of Physical Therapy by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Stay tuned for the first ever #DPTStudent Tweetchat. Hosted by @LaurenSPT , it’ll take place on Nov 28th. Topic: Why PT? Read on »
#PhysicalTherapy Hashtag Project by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine #Hashtags are a robust means of tracking or tagging information on Twitter. They help you manage the fire hose-like nature of the constant stream of information on Twitte ... Read on »