Faculty Deep-dive webinar: Augmenting Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Learning

Using the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation App, Lines and Tubes app, and Assistive devices app to enhance your acute care/cardiopulmonary courses.

Watch Dr. Michael Wong, Founder of PhysioU for a short session "Best" practices for using the acute care focussed apps in your acute care/cardiopulmonary rehabilitation class.

0:00 Founder Introduction

2:55 Partnership with JOSPT

3:35 Partnership with Dr. Ellen Hillegass

5:15 Why we built the Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation App

8:21 4 ways to use Cardiopulmonary App in you classroom!

8:55 Scaffolding for deep learning with context

19:05 Graded exposure for Motor Skill Training

21:39 Augment your lab handouts with video

24:20 Clinical Pattern Recognition Worksheet

27:30 Call to Action

29:47 Interactive Case Studies

33:50 Lines and Tubes App

35:50 Assistive Devices/Gait training/Transfer Apps

41:27Pharmacology App

43:50 Order of Exposure

44:33 Coming soon!

44:56 Inpatient Rehabilitation App

45:36 Bracing videos

46:32 Case studies

52:25 Interactive Microlearning

1:00:12 Comments? Questions? Ideas?

New Physical Therapy evidence-based learning apps for this Fall term

The fall is just a month a way and the PhysioU team has been working tirelessly to create new apps to enhance teaching and learning! After careful assessment of the various curricular needs, PhysioU is releasing new products this Fall.

Macro Simulations: Clinical reasoning development simulations that allow a student to engage with a clinical specialist inpatient care scenarios

MiniSIMS: Short interactive patient-based simulations

Microlearning: Interactive learning checks that are easily deployed throughout your course

Bony and Soft Tissue Palpation: A groundbreaking app mixing the art and science of a master clinician (all muscles, bones, and nerve entrapment are hand-drawn onto the subject)

Taping: The first evidence-based taping app that covers the most common taping techniques including basic principles of taping and materials

Activity Analysis: A collection of videos for analysis of functional movements and activities of daily living from typical performance to impaired performance in patients with spinal cord injury, stroke, COPD, Post-op Total Hip Replacement, etc.

*Return to our normal Discounted Student Pricing*
In 2020, we gave PhysioU to all faculty and students for free to support education during the challenging year.

We are back to our normal discounted pricing for students to continue to support filming of patients, new app development, and simulation development; only $99.00 per year, (Full value $199/year), which is $8.25/month. There are enhanced savings for multiple-year subscriptions and additional discounts for bulk orders by academic programs.

For schools: Please follow this link to submit your request and place the order early. We want to make sure your students will have PhysioU on the first day of class.

For students: Buy direct on our website and enjoy over 50% off student rates.

For the teaching community: On top of these releases, our faculty team is hosting several webinars in August. We will discuss ways to enhance hybrid learning with PhysioU and dive into specific specialty areas (Sign up for webinars here). If you can't make it to the live webinars, that's ok. You can view these recorded webinars at your leisure: Apps Overviews | Deep Dive Series.

Simulations and Interactive Learning

In 2020, PhysioU provided free access to all of it’s learning apps to support students and educators across the globe during the pandemic. We appreciate all the feedback and kind words of support!

One thing we as educators missed the most, was creating experiences that helped students apply their knowledge, develop clinical reasoning, and experience real-life clinical scenarios.

In a 5 part mini-series, “PhysioU- Interactive learning”: we will share glimpses of new simulations and interactive learning experiences that we will be releasing for Fall 2021.

Problem: Building context for the application of orthopaedic rehabilitation knowledge is so critical for the organization and recall of numerous tests and techniques

Answer: Interactive MiniSIMS that cover the most common conditions, allow students to apply their knowledge in context-rich interactive clinical scenarios. Each simulation encourages decision making in the following areas: 

• Interpreting need for referral

• Interpreting results of common outcome measures

• Determining irritability and severity

• Matching interventions to address observed impairments

• Matching home exercise to address observed impairments

• Reassessment of signs and symptoms to progress or regress treatment

Application:

• The fundamental concepts MiniSIMS are designed for the first day of your orthopaedic or musculoskeletal rehabilitation course as a primer for what is to come (Try it here)

• The Ortho MiniSIMS are designed to be used at the end of every week after a body region is completed so students can apply what they have learned (Try it here)

List of Orthopaedic MiniSIMS:

• Guideline based clinical pattern recognition- Fundamental Orthopaedic Management Concepts

• Ankle stiffness and muscle power deficits (Achilles tendinopathy)

• Neck pain and radiating pain (Cervical radiculopathy)

• Hip pain and mobility deficits (Hip osteoarthritis)

• Ankle stability and movement coordination impairments (Ankle sprain)

• Condition-based MiniSIMS

  • Sacroiliac joint pain

  • Lateral ankle sprain

  • Lumbar strain

  • Neck facet syndrome

  • Patellofemoral pain syndrome

  • Piriformis syndrome

  • Shoulder instability

  • Cubital tunnel syndrome

  • Ulnar collateral ligament sprain

  • Wrist sprain

  • Cervicogenic headache

  • More to come...

For more information, click here to schedule a 1-on-1 consultation with the PhysioU Team or check out our webinars.

Enhance student learning with PhysioU Simulations

PhysioU Simulation is going live this summer. Join Dr. Michael Wong, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT in this interactive discussion to explore the new simulations to enhance student learning in clinical reasoning development.

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0:00 Introduction

0:45 What led to Simulations

2:53 Objectives

3:46 Founder Introduction

4:42 Strategic Partnership with JOSPT

4:27 What is PhysioU

5:56 App Development Pipeline

6:32 What are simulations?

17:50 Increasing need for simulation based learning

20:37 Benefits of Simulations

20:50 Who has been doing it for over a decade?

3:46 Simulations way of the future

24:05 Where do simulations fit on Bloom's Taxamomy

24:41 Common reported challenges

25:00 Sims Reflections

29:19 Releasing this Summer

34:37 Watch the following video

40:14 Video goals

43:03 Mini games

1:02:12 Inter-Professional Education

1:07:57 How to help students engage more with PhysioU

1:15:37 Comments, questions, and ideas?

Helpful Links: Faculty access | Free faculty resources

Upper Quarter Y-Balance Test

Most of us have used the Y-Balance Test for lower quarter injury risk assessment, but have you used it for the upper quarter? In today’s mentoring minutes with Dr. Jordan Cossin we look at how to use the Y-Balance Test as a functional measure for your upper extremity patients! Take a look at the video and notes below!

Notes:

• Significant difference in performance between patients with shoulder impingement syndrome & healthy controls.

  • Shoulder impingement syndrome performed worse in medial & inferolateral directions.

• Youth athletes perform significantly better than untrained youth control.

• Fair to moderate correlation with core stability & upper extremity functional tests.

  • No significant difference between dominant & non dominant limbs.

• Excellent test-retest reliability.

• Moderate agreement between commercial Y-Balance Test apparatus and DIY version.

How to Perform:

• Upper limb length measurement

  • Shoulder abducted to 90 deg

  • Tape measure from spinous process of C7 to longest digit

• General cardio warm-up (5 min)

• Push up position (Feet 12 in. apart)

• Ulnar/thumb side of stable arm placed on center block/line

• Test specific warm-up (3 sub maximal reaches in each direction)

  • Medial, superolateral, inferolateral

• 3 practice trials (1 minute rest between each)

• 3 data collection trials (1 minute rest between each)

Data Collection:

• Average of 3 trials scored

• Sum of all 3 directions taken for total excursion score

  • Composite score = total excursion score / 3x upper limb length (#1 on how to perform)

• Compare bilaterally

DIY Upper Quarter Y-Balance Test:

• 3 cloth tape measures

• Athletic tape

• Goniometer

  • 90 deg

  • 135 deg (x2)

• x3 2x4x8 wood blocks

References:

Cramer, J., Quintero, M., Rhinehart, A., Rutherford, C., Nasypany, A., May, J., & Baker, R. T. (2017). Exploration of score agreement on a modified upper quarter y-balance test kit as compared to the upper quarter y-balance test. International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, 12(1), 117.

Hazar, Z., Ulug, N., & Yuksel, I. (2014). Upper Quarter Y-Balance Test Score of Patients with Shoulder Impingement Syndrome. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2(11_suppl3), 2325967114S00275.

Schwiertz, G., Beurskens, R., & Muehlbauer, T. (2020). Discriminative validity of the lower and upper quarter Y balance test performance: a comparison between healthy trained and untrained youth. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 12(1), 1-8.

Westrick, R. B., Miller, J. M., Carow, S. D., & Gerber, J. P. (2012). Exploration of the y-balance test for assessment of upper quarter closed kinetic chain performance. International journal of sports physical therapy, 7(2), 139.