Category Archives: New or Interesting Products

Is Pilates Becoming a Mainstream Physical Therapy Modality??

Pilates has been around for years and traditionally, not a technique taught in Physical Therapy programs.  However, Dawn-Marie Ickes, MPT is a certified Pilates Instructor that is now teaching Pilates as part of the PT program at California State University Northridge.  She also is co-owner of Core Conditioning Physical Therpy in Studio City, Ca and [...]

Whole Body Vibration:Next Physical Therapy Must Have Modality??

Margo VanEck, PT offers her insights about Whole Body Vibration in this weeks episode.  Maybe you have heard about using vibration as a new therapy technique when treating certain types of patients in physical therapy.  I saw the technology in Germany at a trade show long before it became popular in the United States.  Now [...]

Is Your Speed Pulley Slowing You Down?

The big complaint about Pulleys imported into the United States from the big MET Speed Pulley manufacturers such as Steens, Lojer and Saba is that they take FOREVER to get.  We have clients waiting upwards of 3 months for the majority of models.  Until now, the Swedish had a corner on the market. NO MORE [...]

Does Laser Therapy Have a Place in Your Practice? YES, But Will You Get Paid?????

From the exhibit hall of the APTA Combined Sections Convention in Las Vegas, Pete Holmes of longtime Laser manufacturer MedX joins Jeff Worrell for a frank discussion about IR Light Therapy.  They discuss how phototherapy is being used in the Physical Therapy Industry to decrease patient healing time.  Even though reimbursement on the product is not [...]