Published today in JMMT. Comparison of Dry Needle Placement Accuracy Rates When Targeting the Gluteus Medius Osteotendinous Junction in Cadavers (Dinh et al, 2025) #AAMTFellowship tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

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In rodent models, elderly muscle displays greater post-exercise fatigue than young muscle. This indicates that when muscle activation is carefully controlled, elderly muscle fibers are more susceptible to damage.

If you are a PT in Massachusetts, call & email (and do NOT vote for) Julian Cyr Julian Cyr (State Senator for Cape Cod & the Islands) American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) APTAofMA Student SIG APTA Massachusetts Reason: He introduced SB1402 that will create massive UNNECESSARY hurdles (500 didactic + 150 DN hours) for

For so many musculoskeletal conditions, to me, it makes so much more sense to bypass primary care and surgical specialties and simply go right to a physical therapist. Does not seem to be a very controversial opinion any longer to me.

Researchers analyzed airway samples from 86 severe COVID-19 patients and found that lung microbiome imbalances predicted survival. They identified 39 bacteria linked to patient outcomes and proposed drugs to rebalance harmful host-microbe interactions. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Resistance exercise is often promoted as the superior form of exercise for knee OA. Many trials have challenged this idea. In this RCT, yoga was equally as effective. Without a no treatment group, we can't be sure we aren't see natural hx. Greg Lehman jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Spread of injectate around hip articular sensory branches of the femoral nerve in cadavers lnkd.in/gzKqcqQu

Grateful for the passionate crew of clinicians who came ready to dive deeper into dry needling for lower extremity and lumbopelvic conditions. The energy, the questions, the commitment to growth—top tier! Huge thanks to MobilityFit Physical Therapy for being such generous hosts.

AI vs. doctors for diagnosis of >300 complex cases. AI had 4x higher accuracy with 20% lower cost.

Symptom control is recovery Local Anesthetic Injection Resolves Movement Pain, Motor Dysfunction, and Pain Catastrophizing in Individuals With Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial jospt.org/doi/full/10.25…

“Biomedically oriented beliefs were associated with better outcomes.” The impact of physical therapist attitudes and beliefs on the outcomes of patients with low back pain sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

posted many over yrs but, don't think we have answers. For me, at least 60% of subchondral head insuff tx's occur shortly s/p steroid inj. Whether correlative or cause no idea. But a common history is "acutely worse pain after steroid injection"...MR...fx🤷‍♂️

One reason why elderly muscle is more vulnerable to damage than young muscle is its reduced level of lateral force transmission. Lateral force transmission is key to avoiding the overstretching of sarcomeres.

New systematic review confirms AGAIN the findings of Brinjikji et al. 2015. Multiple findings on MRI are CORRELATED with pain. I wrote about it a while ago (link in comments).

Great discussion at DN1 in Kansas City regarding the evidence supporting the use of dry needling for the treatment of cervicogenic, migraine and tension type headaches! #AAMT #dryneedling #headaches James Dunning PhD, DPT, MSc Paul Bliton Dr. Patrick Gorby, DPT James Escaloni Denise Daisy

Academia, & therefore publication, has been steadily moving in the direction of non-specificity in lockstep with postmodernist nihilistic influence. It should come as no surprise that those actually treating patients are so reluctant to follow. Specificity is hard, it always has

I think one of my biggest complaints with some orthopedic practices is their ridiculous use of steroid injections as if we have data to support so many of these injections around joints, etc. Where and why did this ever start? Is it a reimbursement situation?

Is Cognitive Functional Therapy evidence-based yet? 3 years after the RESTORE trial, a follow-up report says CFT’s back benefits just kept on trucking! But… 37% of the subjects weren’t included. Classic survivorship bias territory. My notes, 2-min read: painscience.com/blog/cognitive…

Great take on why the CFT trial is not the gospel. With all due respect, CFT is just another narrative based paradigm. It’s a nice “psychosocial informed” intervention with outcomes that are similar to any other narrative led paradigm (biomedical etc). Stop idolizing narratives