Rehabcast: The Rehabilitation Medicine Update

The May 2018 #RehabCast from the Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation features Dr. Thomas Burns of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta discussing his group’s latest study on the intersection of youth sports concussion and sleep symptoms, along with news briefs including an NEJM essay on the “best medical care in the world,” the American Heart Association’s stroke guidelines controversy, and Kansas’s vision for Medicaid. #RehabCast is the official podcast of the Archives of PM&R, bringing together all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

The April 2018 #RehabCast from the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation features Nicola Maffiuletti from Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, on translating the sea of studies on neuromuscular electrical stimulation – NMES - into practical advice for clinical practice. RehabCast is the physiatry podcast for all of rehabilitation medicine, including occupational therapy, speech language pathology, physical therapy, neuropsychology, psychology, rehabilitation nursing and more, brought to you by a leading journal in the field.

The March 2018 #RehabCast features Frazier Rehab Institute’s Alexander Ovechkin talking about respiratory training in chronic SCI, and a slate of news briefs including the Banyan Brain Trauma Indicator, rising access to endovascular thrombectomy for stroke, and the growing battle over standing desks. #RehabCast is the official podcast of the Archives of PM&R, bringing together all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

The February 2018 RehabCast features Dr. Felicia Skelton talking about her work on antibiotic stewardship in SCI, and news briefs including MoCA’s new fame as President Trump scores a #winning 30/30, the Dutch are falling better, today’s longer adolescence, and we welcome the JISPRM into the fold of rehabilitation journals. #RehabCast is the official podcast of the Archives of PM&R, bringing together all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

Wheelchair skills get a web-based boost: we talk with the University of Pittsburgh’s Lynn Worobey, the bright and dark sides of a Huntington’s Disease advance including an interview with Ed Wild, China’s growing medical contributions probably warrant their own podcast - we highlight the news on Gingko post-stroke, and a novel nerve transfer technique. #RehabCast is the official podcast of the Archives of PM&R, bringing together all of rehabilitation medicine: physiatry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation nursing and more.

The December 2017 #RehabCast features Doug Gross from the University of Alberta on motivational interviewing in worker’s compensation rehabilitation, sounds from ACRM 2017 in Atlanta, a CTE news update, and news about the therapeutic potential of Xenon. RehabCast is the official podcast of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

November 2017 episode discussing the Las Vegas shooting, rehabilitation traumatology, Stronger - the rehab-focused Boston Marathon bombing film, and how firearm TBI survivors differ with Dr. Hilary Bertisch of Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Health. RehabCast is part of the national conversation in PM&R and Rehabilitation Medicine, brought to you by the Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - tune in!

October 2017 episode featuring rehab in a time of natural disaster, the mainstreaming of psychedelic medicine, amantadine for agitation, and investigating attention techniques in robotic stroke rehab with Dr. Grace Kim of NYU. Tune in for the latest in PM&R and Rehabilitation Medicine from the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

RIP Dr. Todd Graham, resistance exercise to improve sleep, TBI as a cause of stroke, and Irish Set Dancing as a therapeutic intervention for Parkinson’s disease with Dr. Joanne Shanahan of the University of Limerick. RehabCast is the official podcast of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Archives of PM&R.

The August 2017 edition features the Yoga vs PT rumble, Stanley Paris’s $3 Million donation to Physical Therapy research, a regulatory odyssey hurting SCI care with Matthew Davis of TIRR Memorial Hermann, and practice-changing evidence for lumbar spinal stenosis care with Janna Friedly of the University of Washington. RehabCast is the official podcast of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Archives of PM&R.

The July 2017 episode of RehabCast features Allan Kozlowski from Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital talking about the first trial of a powered exoskeleton in MS, William Niehaus from the University of Colorado talking about Denver’s new charity rehabilitation clinic - the Rehabilitation Services Volunteer Project, as well as a conversation about biomedical informatics in resident physician education. The rehab news roundup highlights an important trial from Washington University in St. Louis of a brain computer interface controlled hand exoskeleton as a stroke rehabilitation device, a change in the latest Concussion in Sport Group guidelines, and AHCA’s dismal CBO score.

Physicians can finally expect to find a Physiatry category on Medscape and inclusion in the site’s professional reports thanks to the efforts of PM&R docs on social media. Investigative journalist Cathryn Ramin has written a back pain page turner. Learn why this new book intended for the general public is well worth your time as a specialist too. And we look at a powerful way to keep people living with SCI engaged in their own care: My Care My Call with Bethlyn Houlihan and Sarah Everhart-Skeels of the Spaulding New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center.

Digging into the new Shirley Ryan Ability Lab with its chief scientific officer Dr. Richard Lieber. Proposed NIH budget cuts. Rehab Robotics 2017. E-stim during hemodialysis. Taking a needle to tendon contractures with Isabelle Laffont, Flavia Coroian and Bertand Coulet of France’s University Hospital of Montpellier.

The 100th anniversary of the OT profession. Healthcare reform. The opioid crisis. Wearable biofeedback in Parkinson’s disease with Davide Cattaneo and Ilaria Carpinella. Taking up polestriding to treat Parkinson’s disease with Narayanan Krishnamurthi