As with all other healthcare professions, those who train and become certified as occupational or speech therapists must take continuing education courses periodically in order to keep up with the latest ...

Landing a great rehabilitation position requires more than just knowledge and great skills and the ability to showcase these to potential employers. It also requires drive, confidence, ambition and the ...

Working as a travel therapist (OT, PT or speech) can be an absolutely terrific phase of your career. Naturally, not everything about being a travel therapist is terrific. Here are some of the less-than ...

We all remember what it was like coming out of school and how difficult is was to find our first opportunity as a rehab professional. Just like any internship, your last year of school helped you ...

If it hasn't already happened, it eventually will. It effects every professional from entry-level to the executives in any industry. I'm talking about that burnout feeling that many care-giving professionals, ...

Over the course of a career, rehab professionals will see symptoms and health related issues that may be foreign to them. Often they are textbook, with defined symptoms and effective treatment protocols ...

As a working physical, occupational, or speech therapist, you have set many goals in your life and achieved them. But now that you are working, and your job and home life are taking up much of your time, ...

Many hospitals have mandated that all healthcare workers receive their Influenza vaccines. As a rehab professional, it is your duty to do no harm.  By avoiding the vaccine, you risk infecting your ...

Our economy has not been fair to a majority of the US and as it continues its vicious downward spiral, undergrad students are scared to approach the real world without additional education for fear of ...

As a Home Health Professional, you are likely to see a wide range of things as you enter a home to treat a patient. The only preparation you have are your experiences and experiences that your peers may ...

Have you been working as an occupational, physical or speech therapist for a few years? Or are you a relatively "newly minted" rehab therapy practitioner? Regardless of how long you've been practicing, ...

With this Winter not packing much of a punch in Sunny South Florida (sorry everyone else that is experiencing bad weather), tennis and golf elbow will undoubtedly re-emerge as the big injuries of the summer ...

As a rehab therapist, you will have to make countless decisions, choices about the care you will be providing to your patients, and choices about how to run your practice. Like most people, you will ...

American football, which has been coined as America's new past time, could be argued as the greatest sport on the planet or at least in the US. Unfortunately, due to it's very violent nature, it is also ...

Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) are a series of measurements that determine the functional status of a patient. As a skilled therapist, you should be able to develop or master a way of understanding ...

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to write what is arguably, the most important document of your professional life. Your resume is not only your meal ticket, but the determinant for a better position, ...

We have all heard the cliche perception is reality, which is more prevalent now than ever before. Following the recent mandate by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the HCAHPS survey ...

No one would argue with the fact that people are going to have different opinions at work and that these opinions will sometimes come into conflict. That's not always a bad thing. Without such differences, ...

In the full career of a Physical Therapist, one may see thousands of physical afflictions. Most diagnosis' have standard treatment protocols that help the patient progress to the next level of care. Unfortunately, ...

If you've decided to seek work as a rehabilitation therapist, your first step will be to earn a master's degree in either physical therapy, occupational therapy or speech therapy. You'll also need to pass ...