Posts Tagged ‘opportunities in physical therapy’

Rehab Professionals and the Wellness Industry: Where Do We Belong?

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

When it comes to fitness and wellness, I'm afraid most rehab professionals too easily step into the ruts of the industry rather than consider "What might be?".

I was fortunate enough to be thrust into the wellness arena the first year of my professional rehab career. The US Army was big into the new buzz word of 1982: Corporate Fitness.   OUCH…some one is getting old and hopefully for those of you new to wellness you get some perspective on how "Un-new" wellness in the workplace really is!

What disappoints me is that almost every article on rehab and wellness gravitates to the same old models of flexibility assessment, posture screens, standard ergonomic assessment….YAWN! Is that the best we can do?

So what should we be doing? CREATING SOMETHING NEW & BETTER!

At the AZAPTA Fall Conference in 2009 the theme was wellness and fitness. Here is the short one page position paper I distributed articulating a call for us to step forward to LEAD a true biopsychosocial revolution in fitness. Click here to read. 

Here a couple of things I am creating:

 

 

 

What are you doing to bring forward new programming in fitness and wellness that we weren't doing 10, 15 or 20 years ago? 

Let me know…we can and MUST do better than what is out there now!

The Future of Private Practice Physical Therapy

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

It's quite an honor to be featured by my peers in this Month's APTA Private Practice monthly magazine IMPACT. This is a new series titled "Member Spotlight" and I got to be the test subject….fun! 

I really enjoyed the breadth and type of questions they asked….the questions seemed to give a nice perspective on a person  beyond just business. What do you think? What question would you like to answer? I'm curious to hear where you think rehab in general can go/should go/could go….

Check out the full feature and let's push the edge on bringing forth the best possible future for rehabilitation!

http://matthewjtaylor.com/mjtimpact09.pdf