Manual Muscle Test App Update: PhysioU OINF!

PhysioU OINF! Update (Origin, Insertion, Nerve, Fuction)

The NPTE Board exams will stretch your mind!
PhysioU is committed to bringing you to the finish line!

Build clinical reasoning!
Build bridges between classes!
We are making updates to apps that extend your learning!

Latest update:

Origin, Insertion, Innervation and Action table added for common muscles related to our Range of Motion, Manual Muscle Test app! Click below and scroll to the bottom of the page!

Your 18-year-old high school football player experienced a shoulder dislocation 3 days ago, which was reduced on the field. He reports difficulty with raising his arm in abduction, which nerve may be involved in this upper extremity nerve injury?

a.     Long thoracic nerve see answer

b.     Axillary nerve see answer

c.     Median nerve see answer

d.     Musculocutaneous nerve see answer

PNF in Action!

Learning Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) is a highly visual and tactile experience. It is also highly cognitive, as the clinical reasoning behind each choice of movement needs to be carefully thought out for proper patient response.

The PhysioU PNF App cover introductory to expert level PNF techniques, approaches, and clinical reasoning — continuing with our mission to reimagine medical education by bringing clinicians from entry-level to expert, the easy way.

The first and only online/mobile resource for Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation. This app is designed to help you understand the principles and perform the techniques for this highly acclaimed form of movement re-education and facilitation. Taught by an expert in Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation, hundreds of high definition, multi-angle videos help the clinician learn appropriate hand placements and body positioning.

This app will include:

• Introduction to PNF and basic principles
• Progressions
• Techniques
• Patterns
• Rolling
• Treatment in sitting
• PNF Gait

Finally, you can share a PhysioU page to others!

(It's only available on the web version.)

Noticing a little email icon on almost every page of your PhysioU web account? Yes, we have recently added this new SHARE feature that you can easily email a specific treatment, finding, or exam to your patients or peers. 

It's super easy to use.

1. When you come across a topic that is related to your patient's condition or a class discussion, simply click this button on the upper right corner of the page. 

2. An email draft with an embedded URL to the specific page will pop up. Plug in the email address that you wanted to send to and click 'SEND'! 

Not yet a PhysioU user? Try out our 14-day  web app free trial and join the thousands of PhysioU users to enhance your clinical practice and make the lives of the patients we serve better!

Patient education reduces pain!

In a 2011 systematic review from the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation titled “The effect of neuroscience education on pain, disability, anxiety, and stress in chronic musculoskeletal pain” is as follows:

Don’t just leave patient education up to chance, at PhysioU we believe in directing patients to high quality, evidence-based, patient-centered education. Dr. Michael Curtis is a residency trained orthopaedic specialist focused on producing our weekly read based around the clinical practice guidelines!

Look out for our weekly #PatientEducation release!

Of course, we are building an app for this, the Patient education app.

*Patient-centered education, in the palm of your hand*

Louw, A., Diener, I., Butler, D. S., & Puentedura, E. J. (2011). The Effect of Neuroscience Education on Pain, Disability, Anxiety, and Stress in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 92(12), 2041–2056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2011.07.198

APTA: Apps to Help You Survive School

American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has recently surveyed the current PT and PTA students about which mobile apps have helped them through school and clinics.

Many thanks to the APTA community for sharing so many kind words about Physio U!

Much appreciation and our deepest thanks to the PhysioU community members!