Nutrition and Physical Therapy Bundled Course Offering!

Our team is excited to offer you all 3 of our courses now bundled into 1 easy purchase.  Save 20% off (Valued at $60) with this new offer! 

Why buy the bundle?

Work toward earning your CNPT® credential with one, easy discounted payment. 

Normally, our 3 Courses bought seperately cost $297. Save now and get all 3 courses for just $239. 

What is included?

Our three courses include the following board-approved online continuing education courses:

• COURSE 1 - Introduction to Nutrition for PTs (IN)

  Need the basics to help guide your patients to making good, healthy choices that will improve their quality of life and outcomes? The Introduction to Nutrition is your course for Physical Therapy specific nutrition.

• COURSE 2 - Nutrition Assessment and Prescription for PTs (NAP)

  Being able to assess a patient's diet and make concrete recommendations can make or break the difference in a...

The Oath

As many PTs and healthcare providers know and affirm: first, do no harm. Taken from one of the most widely known Greek Medical Texts, this oath commits doctors and healthcare providers to offering their best in care. The more modern version of this oath expounds:

"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow."

Many physical therapists (PTs) have taken a similar oath. In DPT schools around the country, many student PTs (SPT) swear an oath to provide their best care prior to going into internship or clinicals. Upon entering the profession and joining the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), we as PTs swear by the APTA code of ethics, which outlines: "Above all, do no harm." The APTA code of ethics also asks PTs to provide our best ability and judgement, among other requirements.

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By Dr. Sean M. Wells, DPT, PT, OCS, ATC/L, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, CNPT, Cert-DN

There's always a blog or hot article on your newsfeed talking about a "miracle" nutrient or special vitamin. While many of these articles are complete clickbait or mere fluff to get you to buy their supplements, this article has some science and experience behind it. Now that we have that settled, I want to explore the one nutrient that I think has the biggest impact on clients with arthritis: fiber. 

Arthritis comes in several forms but the 2 most common types are osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We as physical therapists (PTs) often help clients with both of these diseases. From exercises, manual therapy, modalities, dry needling, and education -- our roles as PTs is to help our clients move better and reduce their pain. So, how does all this physical therapy talk for OA and RA fit in with fiber? 

Fiber is uniquely a plant-based product that is essentially indigestible to human...

Join Dr. Wells and Dr E, from the Modern Manual Therapy - Eclectic Approach and The Manual Therapist, in a free one hour online seminar covering nutrition and physical therapy. We will be discussing how nutrition added to your normal PT treatments can boost your outcomes, how PTs can easily implement nutrition tips today, and some of the legal considerations of how/what physical therapists and PTAs can offer nutrition. 

The seminar will be held on July 29th at 8pm, and will be available afterwards for download. Sign up soon as seats area almost capped!

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/38fTQEP

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Many physical therapists (PTs) treat patients with chronic pain. Chronic pain can come in many forms. From autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or fibromyalgia, to centralized pain phenomenons like allodynia and hyperalgesia, chronic pain can cause marked disability, loss of functioning, and lacking participation in life.

Integrative Pain Management

Physical therapy (PT) can offer significant benefits to many patients with chronic pain using traditional PT methods. Exercise, stretching, manual therapy, stress reduction, pain science, mindfulness, and activity modifications are all mainstay PT treatments for people with chronic pain. PTs are now starting to see the evidence for how nutrition can also help patients with chronic pain; and as more physios include nutrition in their practices, their outcomes are improving quite dramatically.

Nutrition can help reduce the chronic pain in patients with fibromyalgia. In well-done Finnish study looking at a raw vegan diet...

Last week, I slammed the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports PT (JOSPT) for not including nutrition in their CPGs regarding concussions. This week, I want to laud them for including a great meta-analysis on knee, hip, and spine osteoarthritis (OA) in relation to weight loss in this month's journal.

As physical therapists (PTs), we know that musculoskeletal disorders like knee, hip, and back OA account for a huge portion of healthcare spending. We also know that OA of these joints greatly impacts quality of life, function, and ultimately long-term disability. Physical therapists do their best to offer cutting-edge treatment like exercise and patient education.

Current research shows that people with arthritis can greatly reduce their pain, improve their movement, and restore their strength with physical therapy. Often the best treatments are active exercises, education, activity progression, and manual therapy to initially help to reduce pain. Dry needling has been shown to...

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By Dr. Sean M. Wells, DPT, PT, OCS, ATC/L, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, CNPT, Cert-DN

Last month the Journal of Orthopedic and Sport Physical Therapy (JOSPT) published a lengthy Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) specific to physical therapy and concussion management. Here's a link to the authors' summary. The authors of the CPG offered a long list of references, well-thought out discussions, and clear evidenced-based recommendations. However, our team at Nutritional Physical Therapy feel the CPG did not go far enough for physical therapists (PTs). 

Managing patients with concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), involves a multidisciplinary and multi-faceted approach. Concussions involve disruptions in cognition, planning, executive function, balance, physical performance, speech, vision, and even sleep. As such, the authors do a fabulous job outlining the need for PTs to screen for cognitive, vision, speech, and sleep issues....

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Intro

No meat. No eggs. No milk. Such has been the way at many groceries stores across our nation during the Coronavirus pandemic. The virus which causes COVID-19 has exposed the underbelly of our food system. Is our nation doing its best to promote an ecological and sustain food system? Let's dive deeper.

Ecology

Ecology is a science that explores the mutual relationships of varying organisms and their interactions with their environment. In a way it is like studying the interactions between humans, animals, and the various weather, plants, and natural disasters that can occur. Organisms interact with each and the environment in a sort of three-way interaction. Importantly ecology can and does impact human health, which should obviously be concerning for physical therapists (PTs) and other healthcare providers.

Most PTs are aware of the biopsychosocial model as a great template for delivery care. Another more advanced model known as the...

Nutrition Guidelines for Corona Virus

The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, also known as ESPEN, have released pre-published guidelines for clinicians to consider for patients with COVID-19 (novel Corona virus). The guidelines offer a great breakdown of evidenced-based statements related to managing patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), outpatient and those in quarantine.

Relevance to PT Practice

Physical therapists (PTs) are considered essential during the COVID-19 crisis. Physical therapists are being utilized in ICUs to help position patients, particularly in prone, which helps to improve lung perfusion. Moreover, PTs are helping mobilize and get those stronger after being infected. Let's look at the ESPEN Statements and see how they impact PT practice.

One of the first pieces of guidance ESPEN offers is that patients with COVID-19 should be screened for malnutrition. Some PTs are trained in nutritional screening, which will facilitate the immediate...

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Physical Therapists and Corona Virus: What to do?

Our world has changed drastically in the last month with the progression of the novel Corona virus, also known as COVID-19. A stock market crash, travel halting, to thousands of people dying, COVID-19 is taking its effect rapidly. Many business owners and workers across the world, physical therapists included, are being impacted by this virus. What are physical therapists to do with all of this time and lack of productivity? My response is to keep learning!

I was having a great chat with Erson Religioso (aka The Manual Therapist) last week. He too was frustrated with being at home. Sitting idle does not suit either Erson's or my personalities. So we discussed what could we best do with our time? We both agreed that this is the time for us to take those online courses we have been putting off. 

Many physical therapists are sitting at home waiting for...