Ryan Balmes Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ryan Balmes PT, DPT
Dr. Balmes is obsessed with all things clinical practice in orthopedic and sports physical therapy. Listen in for insights on how you can be your best with clinical practice and professional life.
Moment Arms in your treatment are everywhere. Once you recognize and learn how to manipulate the moment arm in exercises, you ability to increase or decrease the difficulty of exercises greatly improve.
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As a physical therapist we play many hats in the clinic. Listen in to find out what my favorite role is.
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This is a monster podcast episode, with my first ever guest on the podcast, Jacob Lonowski. He's currently a second year physical therapy student here in Atlanta.
I apologize for the audio troubles. I'll get it fixed the best I can on the next one.
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Let's make things harder and stop underdosing the intensity of our interventions, more specifically our strengthening exercises in our patients!
Dr. Ryan Balmes PT
Brzycki Formula
Using RPE for 1RM estimates
Start mastering the skill of reading highly technical pieces of information now, so that you can build on those skills to practice. Reading the latest evidence is important. Applying that knowledge to clinical practice is important too. You have to do both.
Dr. Ryan Balmes PT
JOSPT https://www.jospt.org/
Clinical Practice Guidelines https://www.jospt.org/topic/clinpracguide
Current Concepts https://www.orthopt.org/content/education/independent-study-courses/browse-available-courses/current-concepts-of-orthopaedic-pt
Don't rely on your PT program to arm you with the skills of getting best salary and benefits after graduation. (but shout out to the programs that do help!) You'll need to do your own research to arm yourself with the data you need to help you negotiate your offer letter.
Dr. Ryan Balmes PT
US News PT Salary Averages
Bureau of Labor Statistics Numbers
Consider these two tests in your practice when working with an older patient. I'm a fan, and I think you may be a fan too.
Dr. Ryan Balmes PT
Five Times Sit to Stand test
30s Sit to Stand test
BOOM!
My first episode here on the podcast.
Learn why I'm doing this, and more importantly, learn why executing a good subjective examination really does make the rest of your clinical practice easier.
I share with you the "funnel" technique, starting the exam with open-ended questioning and going narrow into closed-ended questioning for follow-up and further investigation for specific pieces of information.
Thank you for listening :)
Dr. Ryan Balmes PT