Military brats, transient souls, wanders, and vagabonds know that the idea of home is an intangible place. There isn’t a physical structure that contains a height chart for you and your siblings, a single driveway where you first fell off a bike without training wheels, one kitchen where you “cooked” breakfast in bed for your parents on their … Continue reading
This giddy gal! In my world, it isn’t official until it is blogged about….so here we go! Last week I accepted a job at Johns Hopkins and I couldn’t be more excited or honored to joint this incredible rehab team. I will be working in their outpatient physical therapy department focusing on orthopedic and neurologic rehabilitation! … Continue reading
Last week, I met a lot of people at the Next Generation PT conference. Individuals at multiple points in their personal and professional paths. As a physical therapist very much at the beginning of my professional journey looking down my road, I soaked up as much as I could from those ahead, beside, and even behind … Continue reading
At any given moment, there are thousands of forces acting on you: Gravity, electromagnetic, thermodynamic, bosons, gluons, atomic…. maybe even: Speaking literally, there isn’t much we can do about them. That is just how thermodynamics, physics, and midi-cholrians roll. However, lets get a little figurative. Resistance is futile? * *yes, I know I’m mixing my sci … Continue reading
For those of us SPTs who have recently transitioned to DPTs there are many exciting opportunities on the horizon. Decision making can feel overwhelming at times, even if you are choosing between many great options. There is still a CHOICE to be made and often that is paralyzing. If you have ever had a job interview, you have … Continue reading
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
First of all congratulations to all the DPTs who rocked the board exams yesterday! YAY, you are done!! You know you killed it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many of us (present company included) are on the job hunt (be vewy vewy quiet we’re hunting wabbits…I mean jobs). There are so many incredible opportunities ahead of us. So lets … Continue reading
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
Come for a quick ride through Cape Town with me, first of all don’t get too nervous about driving on the other side of the road….we make it out of the city, passing many hitch-hikers and suddenly you see this: WHAT!? If you are like me, you would nearly jump out of your seat in excitement! … Continue reading
Cape Town is an exquisite city. Geographically, historically, ascetically, culturally, gastronomically (mmm, so much good food)…the streets pulse with a simultaneously free and tense vibration that is rooted in centuries of finger prints from individuals and cultures across the globe. The hands that molded this city were not always well intentioned but I will not pretend to understand … Continue reading
A Cup A Day 