The TelePT Connections Podcast

Information, Innovation, Insight on Physical Therapy, Telehealth, and the future of healthcare. We meet at the crossroads of healthcare and technology to discuss the future of human health and wellness.

Welcome to this episode of the TelePT Connections Podcast. Thank you for all your comments on LinkedIn, Twitter and your podcast apps. They mean so much to us, so please continue to comment and be sure to subscribe to the podcast.

This week we got to speak with Dr. Jennifer Solomon. Dr. Solomon is an award-winning, board-certified physiatrist, specializing in spine and sports medicine. Most recently, she served as an Attending Physiatrist for 18 years at the prestigious Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC.

Dr. Solomon’s philosophy as a non-operative specialist is to properly diagnose the injury—identifying the root cause of a patient’s pain—and pursue a proactive treatment plan. Whether utilizing non-operative procedures, physical therapy, or a specified strength and conditioning plan with preventative care, Dr. Solomon works with the patient every step of the way so they can return to a pain-free, injury-free, active lifestyle.

Dr. Solomon has served as a team physician for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) on the WTA Tour and has worked numerous sporting events, including the NYC Marathon. She has been recognized annually by Castle Connolly as one of New York’s Top Doctors since 2013. Dr. Solomon is a born and raised New Yorker and currently resides in NYC with her two daughters, Samantha and Alexis. She is an athlete at heart, having grown up as a Junior Tennis Star and collegiate tennis athlete. Dr. Solomon still plays tennis for fun, is an avid cyclist, and has a passion for all things fitness and exercise.

In this podcast episode we got to talk about:
- Functional and mechanical assessment
- Research in clinical practice
- Pros and cons of PRP injections vs other interventions
- Building effective relationships between Physiatry and Physical Therapy

Jennifer Solomon and her group at the Regenerative SportsCare Institute are blazing a trail for the future of MSK Medicine. It was great speaking with her and learning about the innovations coming from that area of MSK care. We hope you learn from this episode and enjoy the episode as much as we did.

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You can find Dr. Jennifer Solomon here:

email: solomonj@regensportscare.com

LinkedIn: Dr. Jennifer Solomon

Find Daniel Seidler here:

Twitter: @dseidler

LinkedIn: Daniel Seidler

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The TelePT Connections Podcast

Information, Innovation, Insight on Physical Therapy, Telehealth, and the future of healthcare. We meet at the crossroads of healthcare and technology to discuss the future of human health and wellness.

Welcome to this episode of the TelePT Connections Podcast. We went into this episode expecting it to be about the origins of telehealth and telemedicine because our guest was using video visits more than 5 years ago. So we touched on that with Dr Bragg, but you never know where a podcast episode might go. We prepare. We have our set of basic questions. Sometimes though, you have a guest who just leads with their personality and charisma and everything else is secondary. Dr Winifred Bragg is one such guest. She takes a very traditional approach to one-on-one care with her patients and makes every effort to connect with them on a personal level, all for the objective of helping them heal and feel better. She's smart, empathetic and so personable. She's a special doctor. Here's a little background on Dr Bragg...

Winifred Bragg, MD is a nationally recognized speaker, board-certified physician and the CEO of the Spine and Orthopedic Pain Center in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Bragg has appeared in numerous TV and print media programs. She’s been published in Redbook, Woman’s World and Self Magazine and her online articles have had tens of thousands of views.

During this episode we got to speak about:

• Building a successful practice
• Remote engagement in a family member's medical care through telehealth
• Breaking opioid dependence
• Walking in the footsteps of your patients
• The Bragg Factor

Dr. Bragg’s first book “KnockOutPain®: Secrets to Maintain a Healthy Back,” was an Amazon Best-Seller. Check it out (link below).

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We had a great conversation with Dr Bragg. I hope you learn a lot from this one and enjoy the episode as much as we did.

Knock Out Pain: Secrets to Maintaining a Healthy Back

She has given workshops at numerous conferences. You can contact her at speaker@knockoutpain.com or at her website at www.knockoutpain.com.

Facebook:
Spine and Orthopedic Pain Center
The Bragg Factor

LinkedIn: Winifred Bragg, MD

YouTube: Dr Winifred Bragg

Twitter: @DrWinifredBragg

You can find us here:

Adrian Miranda:

Twitter: @adrianmpt

LinkedIn: Adrian Miranda

Daniel Seidler:

Twitter: @dseidler

LinkedIn: Daniel Seidler

The Future of Physical Therapy is HERE - TelaPT

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We hope you enjoy this episode.

The TelePT Connections Podcast

Information, Innovation, Insight on Physical Therapy, Telehealth, and the future of healthcare. We meet at the crossroads of healthcare and technology to discuss the future of human health and wellness.

Welcome to this episode of the TelePT Connections Podcast. Thank you for all your comments on LinkedIn, Twitter and your podcast apps. They mean so much to us, so please continue to comment and be sure to subscribe to the podcast.

Our guest this week is David Fried. David is the CEO of Evolv, a medical device manufacturer which uses VR, motion capture technologies, and gaming to treat neuromotor and age-related diseases and conditions. He studied architecture in his native Canada and later in Spain where he practiced for several years before setting up an interactive digital media firm in Bilbao in 2004.

David later joined Virtualware in 2012 to help develop novel VR and AR hardware solutions. He then became Director of Virtualware’s UK office where he got deeply involved with their new product called VirtualRehab (now called EvolvRehab®), a pioneering virtual therapy application designed to improve rehabilitation through gaming.

In 2017, Virtualware founded Evolv with the aim of further developing virtual rehabilitation technologies and expanding the use of its CE certified EvolvRehab® platform for telerehabilitation and prevention. Since then, David has helped expand the use of EvolvRehab® into 20 countries where it has been used by thousands of people of all ages and levels of disability. He recently led Evolv’s entry into the Microsoft Social Entrepreneurship Program.

In this podcast episode we got to talk about:
- The value of repetition and high rep volume following a stroke
- Therapy games, gamification, and VR
- PT/OT practitioner contribution to software development and design
- Payment and reimbursement for rehab assistance tools like AR/VR
- The future of healthcare

David Fried and Evolv are onto something big and their product design is so user friendly because they endlessly gather feedback from practitioners and patients. This approach leads to continuous design improvements, increased engagement, and improved outcomes - and their research confirms it.

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I had a great conversation with David Fried. I hope you learn a lot from this one and enjoy the episode as much as I did.

You can find David Fried here:

email: dfried@evolvrehab.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgfried/

Find Daniel Seidler here:

Twitter: @dseidler

LinkedIn: Daniel Seidler

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We hope you enjoy this episode.

The TelePT Connections Podcast

Information, Innovation, Insight on Physical Therapy, Telehealth, and the future of healthcare. We meet at the crossroads of healthcare and technology to discuss the future of human health and wellness.

Welcome to this episode of the TelePT Connections Podcast. Thank you for all your comments on LinkedIn, Twitter and your podcast apps. They mean so much to us. Please continue to comment and be sure to subscribe to the podcast.

Our guest this week is Dr. Chuck Thigpen. Chuck is the Senior Director for Practice Innovation and Analytics at ATI, leading the clinical care delivery and analysis from ATI’s Patient Outcomes Registry, with over 2.5 million patients’ outcome measures. He holds adjunct appointments with Duke University Department of Orthopaedics, Division of Physical Therapy, University of South Carolina Department of Physical Therapy, and Clemson University Bioengineering. Chuck completed his PhD in Human Movement Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2006. He completed a M.S. in Human Movement Science with a concentration in Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy from UNC in May of 2003. He earned his B.S. in Physical Therapy from East Tennessee State University in 1997 where he also played football at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga in 1991-92 before becoming a student athletic trainer through 1995.

In 2020, Chuck led the development and implementation of ATI's telehealth solution, ATI Connect. They have seen more than 50k telehealth visits over the last year. Quite an accomplishment.

In this episode we talk about:
- The process of developing, launching and refining a telehealth program at an organization that does 25k visits per day
- Innovative treatment models - what's working and what isn't
- The future of payment for PT and telehealth services
- Emerging technologies and competition in the market for musculoskeletal care

This was one of our favorite interviews so far. At ATI, Chuck is at the heart of a true bellwether of the PT industry. He's extremely informed and he was very candid with us - always a good combo for our podcast.

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We had a great conversation with Chuck. I hope you learn a lot from this episode and enjoy this one as much as we did.

You can find Dr. Chuck Thigpen here:

email: charles.thigpen@atipt.com

LinkedIn: Chuck Thigpen

Twitter: @chuckthigpen

Find Daniel Seidler here:

Twitter: @dseidler

LinkedIn: Daniel Seidler

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We hope you enjoy this episode.

The TelePT Connections Podcast

Information, Innovation, Insight on Physical Therapy, Telehealth, and the future of healthcare. We meet at the crossroads of healthcare and technology to discuss the future of human health and wellness.

Welcome to this episode of the TelePT Connections Podcast. Thank you for all your comments on LinkedIn, Twitter and your podcast apps. They mean so much to us. Please continue to comment and be sure to subscribe to the podcast.

A cortical homunculus is a distorted representation of the human body, based on a neurological "map" of the areas and proportions of the human brain dedicated to processing motor or sensory functions, for different parts of the body. A cortical homunculus, or "cortex man", illustrates the concept of a representation of the body lying within the brain. Nerve fibres—conducting somatosensory information from all over the body—terminate in various areas of the parietal lobe in the cerebral cortex, forming a representational map of the body.

Every MD, PT, and OT learns about the homunculus in school but very few understand it, apply it, and clearly explain the relevance of the homunculus as well as our good friend and first repeat guest, Dr. David Sofer.

On this week’s episode, Dave gives us a review of the homunculus and how it applies to pain and pain management. Also during this episode, he drops multiple knowledge bombs:

• Chronic pain process
• Fundamentals of movement
• Feldenkrais
• David Butler's DIMS and SIMS
• Virtual Reality treatments for anxiety and pain. 

Dave is a wealth of knowledge and he's also very entertaining. That's why we had him back on the podcast.

Dr. David Sofer, DPT is a physical therapist, educator, entrepreneur, patient rights advocate and life-long learner. Clinical practice is his passion, and he loves sharing that with his patients in the office, students at SUNY Downstate PT program and with followers of his arthritis management website www.ArthritisHelp.info.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did. Thank you for listening to the PT Connections Podcast.

To learn more about Dr. Dave go to https://www.arthritishelp.info/site/about or email him at Dr.Dave@ArthritisHelp.Info

You can find Adrian and Dan here.....

Twitter: @adrianmpt

Twitter: @dseidler   

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianmpt/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielseidler/

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We hope you enjoy this episode.

The TelePT Connections Podcast

Information, Innovation, Insight on Physical Therapy, Telehealth, and the future of healthcare. We meet at the crossroads of healthcare and technology to discuss the future of human health and wellness.

Welcome to this episode of the TelePT Connections Podcast. Thank you for all your comments on LinkedIn, Twitter and your podcast apps. They mean so much to us. Please continue to comment and be sure to subscribe to the podcast.

This week on the podcast our special guest is Lydia Zeller, the CEO of Kiio, a provider of digital musculoskeletal solutions sold B2B to health insurers and large employers. In addition to her extensive finance, operations, and product experience, Lydia has a long track record of driving innovation in musculoskeletal care. She conceived and spearheaded Kiio’s efforts to bring its digital MSK therapeutic to market, signed the company’s first clients, and initiated the independent, third-party clinical and financial outcomes studies that have proven Kiio significantly improves pain, function and quality of life while reducing opioid prescriptions, aggressive treatments and total health plan spend. Lydia is passionate about providing effective, individualized, convenient care that delivers high-value at lower costs and delights member users. In this episode, we got to speak with Lydia about:

- The digitization of healthcare and the security of collected data

- Pivoting your strategy to meet the market

- Effectively providing musculoskeletal interventions at scale

- AI triage and patient engagement

As always, please leave your comments on LinkedIn, subscribe to the podcast and share it with friends and colleagues. We had a fascinating conversation and really enjoyed Lydia sharing her ideas and challenging some traditional beliefs in Physical Therapy. I hope you enjoy it too.

You can find Lydia Zeller here:

Linkedin: Lydia Zeller

Website: www.kiio.com

Prodcut Overview: https://vimeo.com/444986531

Adrian Miranda:

Twitter: @adrianmpt

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianmpt/

Daniel Seidler:

Twitter: @dseidler

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielseidler/

The Future of Physical Therapy is HERE - TelaPT

Please subscribe to the podcast.

We hope you enjoy this episode.