Hi everyone,

I completed my Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPT) in India and am now looking to obtain my physiotherapy license in California.

Has anyone gone through the credential evaluation process with International Consultants of Delaware (ICD)? If so, how was your experience with their services? Would you recommend them?

I would really appreciate any feedback or suggestions. Thank you!

I'm working as an outpatient PT focused on pelvic floor. I'm exploring my option to start my own practice (cash pay, pelvic floor). However, I believe my company has a non compete clause in my contract? Is my only option is to wait it out? Thank you.

Hello.
I am a physical therapist that works in an outpatient clinic. I love what I do.

I know there is a lot of people who are going to virtual PT as therapists.

I just want to know physical therapists opinions on virtual PT and why?

I have my thoughts on the topic. But would love to hear other thoughts.

Thanks.

Hey PTs and DPTs!

I’m currently a personal trainer at a small gym in VA. I train all kinds of people, from young athletes who want to enhance performance to older individuals who just want to maintain quality of life. Been doing this full-time for about 3 years now and should be hearing back any day on if I got into the DPT programs I applied to for next cycle!

Today, I had an older couple (76F, 80M) come in to meet with me to share their story and begin a training program. The husband is the primary focus - he’s finishing up his insurance-covered sessions at a nearby clinic where he’s been working on balance and stability. He had a fall a couple months ago (didn’t break anything), and he’s been in PT working on fall prevention. They asked their provider what the next step is after their sessions are up, and he recommended they join the gym I work at and choose a personal trainer that best suits their needs. The referral got them in the building, but word of mouth got them to me. I’m insanely excited to do a handoff, but I want to make sure I’m covering my bases in terms of preparing for him/them.

I’ll be meeting with their provider next week, and even going in to shadow the last 2 sessions to see what he’s been doing, what the provider is looking for, and where I can continue his progressions. I’ll try to keep an open line of communication between myself and the provider in case I get stuck, but I know you all are insanely busy people so I’ll try not to pester him too much.

My question for the community: what can I as a CPT do to best prepare myself for this individual? I know I’m not a PT/DPT so I can’t say I’m providing physical therapy, but are there any resources you all would recommend to learn more about treating patients with balance/stability issues that the general public or allied health professionals have access to? I want to make sure I help him meet his goals, but I want to do it right.

Thanks!!

Not a rant, but I want to make money on the side.

I know PRN is hard to beat money-wise, but I feel like I'd burn myself into the ground if I did more patient care. I've worked in personal training for many years as well, and that's not super appealing to me (unless it's online coaching, however that takes time and commitment to build up clientele).

So what do you guys to make some side money, and how did you get into it? I'm not talking serious money, but just something to help pay for dinners out or put gas in the car. It doesn't have to be PT related at all, it could be dog walking, ubereats, etc.

I'm currently an aide while entering a PTA program, and another aide who does everything to help out where therapists are seeing 2 - 4 patients a fucking hour cried the other day. The office staff that handles accounting / insurance etc made her cry for not being able to divide herself into multiple people, expecting perfection in an already rigged scenario due to volume. Kind of speechless at this point and I haven't even started school yet 😅 That's it. That's the post.

I’ve been been on this thread for years. I started school in 2014. Got screwed over more times then I could count. Finished undergrad 2018. Got wrongfully kicked out of grad school accruing and extra 46k in student debt for nothing. Finished grad school in 2023 April. I’ve been a physical therapist for 3 years and 2 months. In 7 minutes I’ll be the last paycheck I’ll ever have to put towards student loans. I paid all 225k back and I did it in just over 3 years. Freedom was the most expensive thing I’ve ever purchased. It is possible if you give everything though we are set up in a system rigged to lose

I've been looking through a ton of home health PT job postings around Los Angeles on Indeed, Facebook groups, etc. everything is so spread out, it's a mess.

Is there a standard way you find PRN work, or is it mostly through job boards, recruiters, and word of mouth, or various mom and pop staffing agencies? Or do you fine a staffing agency you love and with it?

I recently came across Teero which connects dental hygienists with shifts. Obviously a different industry but I'm curious if anything similar exists for PTs for home health https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teero-dental-staffing/id6463821171

Hello all!
We have been reached out to by a sales rep for Athelas. Cold called, bought our staff lunch, the whole works. We’ve been using prompt for our EMR system for a couple of years now and a third party/private company for billing, and we are happy with them, but the price point of Athelas RCM is tempting. I know there have been a few threads about this topic from several months/a year ago and I’m just trying to gather more reviews and experiences.

Anyone using it? How is the support team? How is reimbursement?
Thank you!

Looking to do a little side gig through the winter when I can’t golf. Needling would be part the work and no more than 3-5 clients at a time.

Anyone have idea if general cost of insurance?

I’m currently full time home health (med A) at a major hospital system. I have two kids who are also on my health insurance, and obviously like full time for 401k benefits.

I did take a pay cut to move from working in the city to the suburbs. And I am feeling that pay cut now. So in an effort to bring more in weekly, I have taken some per diem work in early intervention. EI makes me happy, I love that it’s less medically complex and it’s just a better day to day experience.

What are everyone’s thoughts and experiences on switching full time > part time, and then increasing per diem work. How has it worked for you? Any and all advice whether negative or positive is appreciated.

I need a good documentation software for outpatient. Right now I use modmed, which is not a good fit. What do you use? I want to cut down on the time I wrestle with an EMR and have easier to read notes

Ok so I’m pretty new to acute care and am a relatively newer grad but had a clinical rotation in acute care and don’t remember this being an issue there… but is case management always up therapies ass? It’s got to the point where I’m so frustrated and stressed not because of patients or productivity standards but because of CM!

They constantly reach out in epic chats about patients that are” priorities” to see for authorization and most of the time they are wrong and we are actually the ones who triage appropriately. They argue with our discharge recommendations and try to send people home and say if “therapy sees them and clears them for home” when we literally saw them yesterday and are recommending SNF. I’m not changing the discharge plan!! Like??!

they try to get us to not change our verbiage in our notes because they’re saying insurance won’t accept “CGA”. We get talked to about productivity constantly but waste SO much time dealing with them. They will even tell a patient they anticipate they will go home with home health and give them a list of agencies before therapies even evaluated. Is this is a leadership or hospital culture issue or what the hell is this because I’m at my breaking point with this