No matter your experience, social media has become inextricably intertwined with most facets of professional life & it is fundamentally changing the way we interact as healthcare professionals. Continue reading
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Helpful Hands at Hopkins! Prosthetists Meet Printers #enablethefuture #enable3DPP
OK, that will be the last “hand” pun/joke for this entire blog, hand to god! (Alright after that one)…Yesterday Hopkins hosted an incredible event: Prosthetists Meet Printers: Mainstreaming Open Source 3D-Printed Prosthetics for Underserved Populations. Like many incredible movements, e-NABLE started small. Two individuals from different sides of the planet (a prop maker from the … Continue reading
Calling all trolls ~ Battle for the Net #InternetSlowdown
You may have heard some inklings around the web about Net Neutrality. Such a boring name for a really big issue! We need all the internet trolls out there [the adorable 1960s doll kind and the vicious middle earth kind] to band together and let the FCC know, not cool. Cable companies are famous for … Continue reading
Happy World Physical Therapy Day! #worldPTday
Serendipity, kismet, coincidence? Doesn’t matter, you’re talking to one giddy gal. My first day of work at Johns Hopkins happens to fall on World Physical Therapy Day! HAPPY WORLD PHYSICAL THERAPY DAY! On Sept. 8th each year, physical therapist around the world to raise awareness about the crucial contribution of our profession in keeping people … Continue reading
At the top of the mountain ~ #NextGenPT2014
This past weekend I traveled back to my physical therapy roots in Washington, DC. PTs and educators from across the country gathered at my alma mater for an incredible inaugural conference: There is always such energy surrounding conferences like this as you meet and share ideas with individuals from across the country. It was incredible to be surrounded … Continue reading
Fed Up? Time to stand up!
It has become old news, the national and global obesity crisis. Almost like a broken record, we hear the statistics, we get mildly outraged, perhaps alter our eating/exercise habits for a time….wash, rinse, repeat. Yet nothing changes. Our population continues to get heavier (*note you can be a skinny fat person too) and more unhealthy. For … Continue reading
Turtle Nesting Season ~ Beach lights OFF at night!
Thank you to everyone who has donated toward my Relay for Life efforts! Your shells are on their way as a special thank you. Visit my page and see how far we have come: Relay for Life (Shells still available for donations: Hero shell and Hieroglyph Shell) Today, I had a specially commissioned shell commemorating the … Continue reading
A Shell A Day ~ Join the Fight This Month #relayforlife
Happy May Everyone This month, A Cup A Day is doing something special in honor of Cancer Research Month: A Shell A Day On May 17th, I will be joining my fellow PTs from Culpeper Regional Hospital in the local Relay For Life event. Communities across the globe come together to honor cancer survivors, remember … Continue reading
TAKE ACTION – Get your advocacy on! #StopTheTherapyCap
Yesterday, the American Physical Therapy Association and fellow members of the Therapy Cap Coalition participated in the 2nd grassroots campaign to ensure that Congress addresses the Medicare Therapy Cap before December 31, 2013! At the first grassroots campaign back in November 1,000 APTA members sent more than 3,000 e-mails to Capitol Hill, asking Congress to … Continue reading
