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If you have spent any time in home health care physical therapy, you can't help but notice the less then ethical practices that are depleting our Medicare dollars faster than they can be replenished.



I know, our government may not have their focus right but this is not a political blog here...



I'm focused on helping home health care PT's raise the bar if you will. Deliver the golden standard to the golden years. It seems the work ethic is slowly ebbing away...we must… Continue

I won't be here tomorrow or Saturday. I'll be in Indianapolis at the Woman of Faith gathering. I can't wait. I'm going with my best friend and have been looking forward to this for a long time.



I need a break... we all do. America, we are all about the dream, materialism and go go go. Women were created to rest. Do we? Not many of us do... well that is, some of us rest too much and coin our own destiny as couch potatoes and others of us run so much that we are unable to slow down for… Continue

More than enough time has passed since I promised to be back with the rest of the rest story on REM...



REM Sleep

You may be saying that you get sleep at night with the aid of your sleeping pills. However, most prescription sleeping medications alter the sleep cycle and suppress the all important REM sleep. You may also wonder why your weight loss is not going so well. Keep reading.



REM or Rapid Eye Movement sleep is the deepest cycle of sleep lasting about 10 minutes.… Continue

As you already may know, interval training is sweeping the fitness industry and taking it by storm. Long gone are (or slowly leaving) are (is) the notion that you've got to sweat it out for 30-45 minutes in the Cardio zone on the treadmill or elliptical.



I've been down with a casted ankle now for 3 weeks with 7 more to go. Lots of reading time and this morning I was reading through ACSM's (American College of Sports Medicine) Health and Fitness Journal. An interesting article on… Continue

It's been a while since I've been here. New job, huge learning curve. Paperwork is now on a laptop, driving everywhere a road lies it seems.



Home Health Care Physical Therapy. It's not easy these days. There seems to a new generation of patients who care more about you just being there (connection) than they actually do about getting well. This does not surprise me.



But what is scary is the times ahead that are coming. When doctors will be able to fire their patients for… Continue