Accepting your first job offer and beginning your career is an exciting milestone coming out of school. It is filled with anticipation and eagerness,  but also carries a degree of uncertainty and anxiety of the unknown. What if I don’t like it? What if I don’t know as much as I thought I knew? Am…

5 Things I Learned Paying Off $200k in Student Loans With My Wife My wife and I graduated from undergrad and graduate school with a combined $200k worth of student loans. Her portion were private loans from a Nursing undergraduate degree and mine were federal loans from my DPT degree. We both knew that we…

ACL Rehab Testing In the world of ACL rehab, we WISH we could find the perfect ACL test. The test that would tell us if an athlete is ready to be discharged and return to sport, performing at a high level with low risk of reinjury. Unfortunately, we still haven’t found that test. So instead,…

Evidence Based Investigating “A strategy, in a world without a crystal ball, should only be judged on the quality of the process that was being utilized to make the decisions being implemented and not solely on the outcome achieved. If you focus solely on the outcome, you will often confuse skill with luck.” – Larry…

A long term rehabilitation process such as ACL rehab is going to have several factors that will dictate the progression of an individual.  With ACL rehab, as with all injuries, we tend to have a general idea as to how long certain processes will take and when it is understood and expected for individuals to…

The return to sport decision making process can be daunting with ACL Rehabilitation. There are a lot of variables to consider and you are most likely dealing with an individual who is eager to begin playing again. Taking the emotions out of the process and having a systematic approach to the decision can go a…

We love to talk about the end stages and return to sport ACL rehab, but oftentimes forget that in order to get there we had to start from somewhere! I absolutely LOVE the first month of ACL rehab. Maybe even more than the later stages of rehab.  Many clinicians I run into will talk about…

Testing is an integral part of ACL Rehab. We often think about and like to discuss end stage, return to sport testing. However, there is a tremendous amount of time and work that takes place prior to even getting to that point. Whether it be an initial evaluation, progress note, discharge day or even just…

Are you testing _____?!  I think we’ve all had that discussion with a colleague or taken a stroll through social media that leaves a pit in our stomach.  Are we missing the boat by not including (insert assessment)? We rush into the clinic to add this new assessment only to realize you don’t have the…

⁠Newton’s First Law of Motion: An object in motion stays in motion and an object at rest stays at rest. ⁠⠀ “Nothing happens until something moves”⁠⠀- Albert Einstein ⁠⠀ What is the initial state of your client? Are they simply sitting atop a hill awaiting for a nudge?  Or are they actively flying down a…