Pam Showman, DPT

[Professor Jeremy Lewis PhD FCSP @JeremyLewisPT]

📢JUST PUBLISHED: It is Time to Put 'Special Tests' for Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain #RCRSP Out To Pasture.
https://t.co/TsjjJfiVpO
@JOSPT #ViewPoint

@PaulieSalamh @JeremyLewisPT

[Brett Bartholomew @Coach_BrettB]

Unsurprisingly the majority of online arguments make up the bottom of Paul Graham’s hierarchy of disagreement.

Especially amplified when people discuss large scale topics such as politics, or as niche (relatively) as views in strength & conditioning.

Courtesy of @AdamMGrant

[Pam Showman, DPT @pamshowmanDPT]

Don’t be the PT that tells someone they’ll never do something again...be the PT that proves that PT wrong

#hopedealer

[Derek Griffin @DerekGriffin86]

Strength training as little as twice a week may provide benefit for people with fibromyalgia. It may impact on multidimensional domains including pain, anxiety and sleep. https://t.co/w2mymBp5GK

[Greg Lehman @GregLehman]

At its simplest, treatment driven from the kinesiopathological model has nothing to do with "ideal" movement patterns.

Its just an avoidance approach.

Meaning, "it hurts to do that?" "OK, here is how to not do that"

Nothing wrong with simplicity. Be a Movement Optimist /end

[Greg Lehman @GregLehman]

Treatment success does not prove your mechanism.

This is the largest gap in the kinesiopathological model.

Achieve less pain when a movement changes does NOT mean that was a FLAWED movement and the new one was an IDEAL

It was just painful and you avoided it. 1/

[ChadCookPT @chadcookpt]

IT'S OUT. "Early physical therapy appears to be associated with subsequent
reductions in longer-term opioid use and lower-intensity opioid use for all of the musculoskeletal pain regions examined". Open access link. https://t.co/9OgGbY7snR

[Pam Showman, DPT @pamshowmanDPT]

SOS

[Roy Film @RoyFilmDPT]

On my insurance plan, my co-pay for: 6 PT visits is $180; lumbar fusion surgery is $100; a month of opioids is $10. If you’re poor, you’ll either take the drugs or go without care. Our system drives pts to prescription narcotics. Last year over 40,000 of them died. @APTAtweets

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Things you control:
Your effort.
Your beliefs.
Your identity.
Your actions.
Your attitude.
Your integrity.
Your thoughts.
The food you eat.
How kind you are.
The media you read.
How reflective you are.
How thoughtful you are.
The people you listen to.
The type of friend you are.

[Pam Showman, DPT @pamshowmanDPT]

It is COMPLETELY cool to ask how a patient is doing emotionally. Odds are no one else is. #promotingemotionalliteracy

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

4. No decision is sometimes the best path. If you can’t get comfortable deciding, the answer is to explore the tension not force a decision.

[Pam Showman, DPT @pamshowmanDPT]

NERDING OUT on course info from @juliewiebept

Learning a lot about how breath can help or inhibit skill development. It’s low hanging fruit that can help… https://t.co/nY4us5Kq0A

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

If college admissions officers are biased in favor of extroverts, they're making a big mistake.

"We perceive people who talk a lot — and, especially, those who talk quickly — as more able. . . . But there’s zero evidence for that."

https://t.co/25Oh05d8Pt

[Tony Gentilcore @tonygentilcore1]

I "should" eat like so and so. Not really.

I "should" look like so and so. Nope.

I "should" train the way so and so does. No.

I should, should, should.

As my wife, a psychologist, would say: "stop should'ing on yourself."

Just....stop.

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

"The first step in improving the quality of our arguments is to stop thinking of them as fights or competitions. . . . The point of engaging in argument is to improve our understanding of one another and of important issues." https://t.co/KsfZUsc5gc

[Pam Showman, DPT @pamshowmanDPT]

“I had a choice between the elevator and the stairs, and I chose the stairs. My knees aren’t as fragile as I thought.”

I get so much encouragement from the patients I work with. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows but comments like these are priceless.

[Pam Showman, DPT @pamshowmanDPT]

Patient with persistent pain thoughts after session today: “it’s [loading] like a muscle relaxer but without all the side effects” 🙌🏼 You better believe I celebrated that victory.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Stress + Rest = Growth.

Pick an element of your life.

Think about whether you ought to be in a state of taking on just-manageable challenges, stress, or in a state of rest, recovery, and reflection.

Is your behavior in alignment with your thinking? If not, change it.

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

Excellent advice for life in general:
1. Clean up after yourself
2. Write a thank you note https://t.co/2j4YBz0Lq3