A lecture about technological trends in physical therapy practice. Lecture given by Casey Kirkes, PT, DPT and Dale Boren Jr. PT, MPT, OCS at OPTA Western District Meeting, Norman OK on 06/30/11.
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Technology in the Physical Therapy World
1. Dale Boren Jr., PT, MPT, OCS and Casey Kirkes, PT, DPT Technology in the PT world
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4. Objectives The audience will be able to access and navigate at least two websites for enhancing evidence based practice in physical therapy at the conclusion of the lecture. The audience will understand how to incorporate at least two websites and two mobile applications for increasing the efficiency of physical therapy practice by the end of the lecture.
5. Objectives The audience will value the importance of social media in marketing for physical therapy at the conclusion of the lecture. The audience will demonstrate the ability to use at least one mobile application for objective physical therapy measures by the conclusion of the lecture
6. Objectives The audience will recall the steps involved to be able to download a mobile application to a mobile device for collecting objective physical therapy measures by the conclusion of the lecture. The audience will understand how mobile applications can enhance and encourage the use of evidence based practice for physical therapy by the end of the lecture.
7. Key Areas of Practice EBP How can technology help you keep up with the most current evidence? Efficiency How can technology help make my practice more efficient?
8. Key Areas of Practice Marketing How can technology help to promote my practice and my profession? Treatment How can technology help provide the best possible treatment for my patients?
9. Technology and EBP Physiopedia Wiki platform for PT’s worldwide Place for PT’s to contribute and share knowledge Evidence based resource Cervical Myelopathy
11. Technology and EBP Data bases CI’s inquire about access to online libraries Most schools provide access APTA Open Door
12. Technology and EBP Educata Online continuing education PT, physicians, and allied health professionals Educata has partnered with many state PT associations to provide discounted CEU’s. Oklahoma next???
13. Technology and EBP Evidence in Motion Web-Based Online Course Offerings EIM Mobile PT app – evidence based push service that delivers PT news, blogs, and journals to mobile devices Myphysicaltherapyspace.com – online professional network for all things PT OCS Prep Course
14. Efficiency Google calendar Multiple Calendars Sync to mobile device Multiple users for clinic calendar Invites Alerts
18. Marketing Facebook More than 500 million active users People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
19. Marketing Twitter Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users. Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day http://tweettwins.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/twitter-statistics-2010/
26. Treatment Apps Exercise Go to app store. Search iGoni Download install FREE iGoni app We’ll come back to it after it downloads.
27. Treatment Apps Clinically Relevant “I would recommend this to all clinicians who perform orthopedic examinations.” J M David, DPT, MS, PT, OCS, CSCS. Book Reviw.J Orthop Sports PhysTher 2011;41(4):283-287.
