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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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Post Series: Leveraging Technology for Research, Evidence, and Discussion by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Via www.problogger.net What is RSS? Click image to link to post! This week I will be giving a lecture in the Scientific Inquiry course at the Physical Therapy Pro ... Read on »
The Value of a Patient Portal: Increasing Compliance While Reducing Cost by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As patients become more and more interested in engaging and communicating with their healthcare providers online, the demand for portal applications will only increase. ... Read on »
Avoiding the Breach: Is our patient data really protected? by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Electronic health records (EHRs) are the future of the provider‐patient relationship. As the storage, retrieval and sharing of information via EHR accelerates, providers ... Read on »
The AB783 Story Continues by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine PT in Motion News Now now alerted me that AB783 has been re-scheduled for hearing on Monday June 27th. This bill will be heard in the California Senate Standing Committee ... Read on »
AB783 and the California Campaign to STOP POPTS by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine On Monday, June 13th California Assembly Bill AB783 failed to pass out of committee in the California Legislature. The bill, which would explicitly allow physicians to emp ... Read on »
Manage the Evidence Like a Pro by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The problem. You are trying to stay current with the literature because that’s a great way to ensure quality treatment of your patients OR your a student in a physical thera ... Read on »
From Bench to Bedside: Spinal Cord Physiology -> Clinical Interventions by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Having just defended a dissertation in the field of neuroscience, this session was my guilty pleasure. I felt right at home hearing about the modulation of intrinsic motor ... Read on »
CSM 2011 – The Pauline Cerasoli Lecture by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Photo taken from APTA website This lecture honors one of physical therapy’s best and brightest – Pauline ‘Polly’ Cerasoli (Feb 25, 1939 – Sept 11, 2010). The C ... Read on »
It’s Not About the Patient by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine If you have not yet viewed this video from Jack Bert, MD , from which the above screen shot was taken, please check it out now. Brace yourself. At the 8-minute mark ... Read on »
Physician Owned Physical Therapy Services (POPTS) in California. The anti-POPTS movement goes Web... by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Physical Therapists in California are taking to all forms of the web and utilizing Web 2.o Principles to oppose recent efforts by the California Medical Association and Le ... Read on »
Fear of Re-Injury and Return to Sport Following ACL Reconstruction by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Fear of Re-injury and Low Confidence 1 Year after ACL Reconstruction: High Prevalence and Altered Self-ratings: CSM2011 Sports Section Platform Presentation Trevor Lentz, ... Read on »
American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria for Imaging by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Integrating the American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria for Imaging for Musculoskeletal Conditions into Physical Therapist Practice Gail Deyle PT, D ... Read on »
Getting Started in Educational Research by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Educational research is critical to ensure physical therapy students are receiving the best training as possible. However, educational research needs to live up to high ... Read on »
State-of-the-Art in Postural Control: Pelvic Floor by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Dr. Paul Hodges undertook the difficult task of explaining the intricate connection between the respiratory / pelvic floor / and abdominal muscles. I have the difficult ... Read on »
Physical Therapists in the Emergency Department by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Findings indicated that these physicians found ED physical therapy services to be of value to themselves, to their patients, and to the department as a whole and descri ... Read on »
Multiple Sclerosis: Improving Physical Therapy Outcomes by Minimizing Neurogenic Fatigue and... by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine My first educational session at my first physical therapy conference was on what seems like a very challenging condition to manage in the clinic – Multiple Sclerosis. ... Read on »
Healthy People 2020: Physical Therapists in Health and Wellness by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine CSM kicked off with a talk about how physical therapist’s can fit into the Healthy People 2020 initiative . Further, the roles and potential roles of physical therapists i ... Read on »
CSM Kick Off by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Arrived in New Orleans, and man I am excited! A full flight from Denver to New Orleans, with many Denver area physical therapists and even some PT students from Univer ... Read on »
Mrs. Smith: you have an upcoming PT appointment… by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Another guest post from Bronwyn Spira, PT, and Tejal Ramaiya, DPT, CSCS, this one an apt follow-up to my post on Physical Therapist Use of Smart Phones : One of the ... Read on »
Smart Phone Use by Physical Therapists by Dr. Eric R. Healthy Living Professional Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine A Physical Therapist using his cell phone today in clinic. Kyle’s post about smart phone use by physicians had a brief reference to some data attempting to descri ... Read on »