Larry Benz, PT, DPT

Mike Walker, PT, DSc

Julie Whitman, PT, DSc

Andrew Bennett, PT, DPT

Kyle Kiesel, PT, PhD

Rob Wainner, PT, PhD

Paul Mintken, PT, DPT

Jack Miller PT, MCISc

Jim Elliott, PT, PhD

Deydre Teyhen, PT, PhD & more!

REG ISTER ONL INE NOW! Fees: ▪ Regular $895 ▪ APTA accredited Residency or Fellowship Program $795

▪ Network Partner $760 ▪ EIM Students $695

The business track is included in the registration price, however you may register for that day only. The

cost for this is $100, $75 for EPPM students and graduates.

Crowne Plaza-San Antonio Riverwalk 111 E Pecan Street San Antonio, TX 78205

Manipalooza 2012

Advanced Cervical Manipulation

Mobilization with Movement

Cervical Thoracic Junction & Upper Ribcage Manipulation

Advanced Exercise Intervention for the Lower Quarter

Advanced Hip & Knee Manipulative Management

Spinal Manipulation Excellence- Refining the Skill…

Decalcifying the Patient Experience & more!

Faculty:

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The BIG NEWS this year is Larry Benz's new business track

that we've added to the first day. This breakout portion

will consist of lectures and discussions about private prac-

tice management using case studies and real world exam-

ples to show owners and managers what works and what

doesn't. A forum setting and concluding happy hour will

allow for brainstorming and interaction among the best

private practice PTs from all over.

If you can't attend the entire event you can register for Saturday morning's lectures (more details on this

coming soon at Manipalooza.com).A portion of the registration price for the

Saturday morning session will benefit PTHelpForHaiti.org.

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March 2012

News YOU Can Use

Greetings from the EIM virtual schoolhouse! We hope you all have had a great start to the year and that for most of you “Spring is springing!” The 2012 LE Clinical Management course has concluded and many of you are now working your way through the Lumbopelvic Management course. Others of you are embarking on your last Topic course, EIM R108 Medical Screening, or the newly revamped Pharmacology & Lab course (EIM R110) and have only the capstone course (OCS prep course) to conquer along with outstanding clinical mentoring and clinical hours. Our fellows are currently learning “How Manual Therapy Works” in EIM F109. Regardless of where you are in your program, keep pluggin’ and absorbing knowledge like a sponge!

Congratulations to those of you who recently sat for your OCS exam; that in and of itself is a feat! We certainly look forward to hearing about your success and celebrating with many of you. For those of you who may be faced with the challenge of retaking it (bottom-line - it is a tough exam!), we will be right here supporting you.

It appears we have made a leap with regard to our class sizes and with that there have been some small but important changes in how we administer and teach our four Management Courses. With regard to size, we have run 10 concurrent course sections for the last two Management Courses which, in total, comprise of approximately 200 learners. To ensure consistency of instruction and to maximize effectiveness, Jason Rodeghero has assumed the role of faculty coordinator and is doing a great job of leveraging the efforts of our instructors and empowering them to be more effective. In fact, this has been such a success that Jason will be

continuing in that role indefinitely. Hats off to Jason!

Julie, Teresa, and Rob want to also give a big thanks and a high-five to our fellows for their continued outstanding work in providing teaching support in our courses and enriching students across programs. We also want to recognize our tDPT and Certificate Track Program students for their high-level of work, which is on par with our credentialed program students (i.e. residents and fellows). We think this confirms that the choice of program our students make is simply based on needs and goals, not necessarily on ability. The EIM student body (you), are a talented bunch of folks and we are honored to have the privilege of both developing innovative learning opportunities and helping you find the right educational “fit.” Thanks for giving us the opportunity to do so.

Finally, thanks to our EIM “veteran” students. At the end of last year we asked you to keep an eye out for the new students and be ready to lend a hand when asked or when you see a need. It is apparent that you have done both. So, for those of you who started in the Winter 2012 Cohort, we will expect the same from you as you join in and help acclimate the Summer 2012 Cohort, which will be starting sooner than you think. Also, remember that tDPT students jump into the coursework with any management course, so there may be new learners in any give management course. This will be one of the many great opportunities for you to “Pay It Forward” as you encourage, support and lend a helping hand to new students.

Thanks!

Rob, Julie, and Teresa

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Fellowship Updates from Julie

Fellows,

I want to take the opportunity to simply encourage you and to get the newer fellows excited about the coursework that is coming. The academic coursework that you all go through is rigorous, to say the least. You work long and hard to gain mastery in finding and appraising the literature, putting the pieces together and teaching in front of your PT colleagues, mentoring online learners (while you are learning the material yourself), and getting an initial handle on core manual therapy techniques. This is done in your first academic year in the program and fellows are often overwhelmed and exhausted at this point. The fire hose has blasted you for 12 months! If this is where you are, you should be proud of your hard work and of all of the foundational EBP knowledge that you have gained.

Now, GET READY to step it up another notch in direct application to your patient care with your year-long clinical decision-making coursework (OMPT Patient Management Framework followed by Fellow Virtual Rounds). In this coursework, you will meet virtually twice per month (on average) to discuss the higher level clinical decision-making that is informed by evidence and then taken to the next level by critically thinking and working with the patients who sit in front of you in the clinic. You will find these courses to be exciting and refreshing because they take you back to the reason you are a therapist - it's all about patients and the application of your knowledge to patient care. The faculty for these courses are highly skilled manual therapists, know and understand the literature well, and are fantastic educators. See the comments below from fellows who have gone before you in these classes:

“I have never had a class or course yield higher results in patient care IMMEDIATELY the following day.” - Derek Little

“FVR with the three wise-people - Virtual rounds with Barb Stevens, Tim Fearon and Britt Smith was sincerely a life changing experience. The three of them taught me so much about clinical wisdom and how to integrate not only what I had learned in the fellowship, but also every other bit of knowledge and experience that I brought into it. I feel that my clinical reasoning has been enhanced tremendously because of the faculty and I have a new-found understanding of the dedication it takes to continue growing as a clinician.” - Jason Steere

“The FVR course embodies the evolution of your clinical practice and substantiates what it means to be a fellow. Participating in fellowship training overall is like summiting a mountain. The climb is at times steep and challenging, yet simultaneously awe-inspiring and your faculty resemble Sherpas, charting the course and guiding you to the top.” - Cheryl Sparks

“Moving through EIM's Orthopaedic Residency made me a better evidenced-based practitioner, ever expanding my current knowledge on best treatment patterns. Now after completing the residency and moving into the fellowship, I have truly begun to harness this knowledge, fine tuning the way it

should be used in clinical practice. Our Fellow Virtual Rounds coursework has truly reshaped and balanced my three pillars of evidence-based medicine with my clinical reasoning skills in delivering patient centered and evidenced-based care.” - Matt Haberl

“Fellow Virtual Rounds is a unique opportunity within the EIM OMPT Fellowship designed to facilitate growth as a professional and a clinician. Each week fellows-in-training present their patient cases to colleagues and expert clinical faculty who provide guidance and aim to reinforce your strengths and improve your weaknesses as a clinician. Evidence-based practice is stressed but more importantly an emphasis is placed on sound clinical reasoning in the selection on examination and intervention techniques. This course has been a true asset to my practice and I look forward to these presentations each week.” - Jeff Ryg

“Fellow Virtual Rounds has been a game changer for me. As a new graduate, I had a good understanding of the evidence behind the manual techniques that we use, but this course has highlighted the decision-making that goes into using these techniques. EIM's FVR allows not just two or three colleagues the ability to present cases or give feedback on clinical practice; I am able to converse with up to 15 other practitioners with a wide range of experience. This has opened my mind to techniques and reasoning that I may have not thought of using. Brad, Tim and Britt are filled with a wealth of clinical knowledge that has caused me to dig deeper and completely understand how each patient presents. This has not only led to better outcomes in the clinic but has given me the confidence to address the patient's complaints and effectively and efficiently get them where they want to be.” - Mark Shepherd

”Fellow Virtual Rounds is the course that separates a fellow from the rest of practicing clinicians. This course is an opportunity to develop an expert level of clinical thinking and reasoning that allows a fellow to take all of the evidence-based material and manual techniques they have gathered in their fellowship and past training and maximize their application within an amazing clinical reasoning model. It has been the biggest practice changer of any course I have taken in my career!” - Mark Kargela

Get ready for a real treat in this course series, as well as the other OMPT courses that come in most fellows' second year of academics!

Please remember to get in touch with me (julie@eimpt.com) or your mentor-leader with any questions about the program and your progress towards graduation. Also, remember that Bill Garcia (bgarcia@eimpt.com) is your primary point of contact regarding preparation for your 1:1 mentorship hours.

Thanks for the privilege of working with each of you, and have a great spring!

Julie

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March 31-April 1, 2012: Rob Wainner: Roseville, CA: Management of Lumbopelvic Disorders

April 15-15, 2012: Tim Flynn: Arlington, VA: Management of Lumbopelvic Disorders

April 27-29, 2012: Rob Wainner: Knoxville, TN: FOTO Annual Outcomes Conference

May 12, 2012: Larry Benz: Washington DC: Washington DC Chapter Meeting: Critical Essentials of Customer Service

May 19-22, 2012: Rob Wainner and Larry Benz: San Antonio, TX: Manipalooza 2012

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Residency Courses

EIM R106 Post-surgical Management and Rehabilitation: begins

4/30/12

EIM R310 Capstone/OCS Prep Course: begins April 30, 2012

EIM SR105 The Female Athlete: begins April 30, 2012

EIM SR106 Across the Ages: begins May 28, 2012

OMPT & Fellow Virtual Rounds

Business Management Principles for the PT: Dr. Larry Benz: May

7, 2012-June 29, 2012

OMPT-Patient Management Framework/Adv. Clinical Decision-

Making: Barb Stevens, Tim Fearon, Britt Smith: July 2, 2012-

November 2, 2012

OMPT – Writing Case Reports/Series: Dr. Jason Rodeghero:

November 5, 2012-December 14, 2012

OMPT – OMPT Introduction and Professional Socialization: Dr.

Jake Magel: November 5, 2012-December 14, 2012

Fellow Virtual Rounds – 2012-2013: Barb Stevens, Tim Fearon,

Britt Smith: November 5, 2012-July 2013

Fellow Virtual Rounds – 2011-2012: Barb Stevens, Tim Fearon,

Britt Smith: cont. from November 2011-July 2012

Upcoming Dates and Events

Join Dr. Rob Wainner and Dr. Julie Whit-man to gain insights on how you can make an impact on the PT profession and jump start your career with a Resi-dency or Fellowship Program.

Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT

Space is limited. Click here to reserve your Webinar seat now.

Upcoming EIM Open Line Nights

Join Dr. Tim Flynn as he shares infor-mation about EIM's NEW Manual Thera-py Certification. This program is de-signed to create physical therapists who are highly skilled in manual therapy and relevant research in this area. This certi-fication can be a stepping-stone to board certification in Orthopaedics or Sports Physical Therapy.

Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT

Space is limited. Click here to reserve your Webinar seat now.

Please join Dr. Julie Whitman, Program Director, as she covers the "nuts and bolts" of EIM's Transition DPT in Muscu-loskeletal Management. She will be covering both our U.S. program as well as our International Transition DPT Pro-gram.

Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT

Space is limited. Click here to reserve your Webinar seat now.

Know someone interested in EIM? Share these links to our upcoming informational webinars with them.

FOTO

You will be receiving your personal FOTO Dashboard Link. The link will remain “live” and allow you to view your outcomes scorecard (color-coded and abbreviated version of the full report) as well as the full report and other items related to managing your patients in FOTO. The link will allow you to access outcome reports for both the current quarter and previous quarters. In addition, our Director of Outcomes, Dr. Bill Cutrone, will be reviewing and providing feedback to you regarding your quarterly outcomes for your 1st quarter reports, so stay tuned!

Reminder: Once you are set up with a FOTO account, enter your outcomes for all the patients seen regardless of where you are in your course of study. If for some reason you don’t have a FOTO account, please contact Jessie Dugan (jessie@eimpt.com) and get started ASAP.

Mentor-Leaders

With the Summer 2011 Cohort we started our Mentor-Leader program. An EIM Mentor-Leader is a high achieving EIM fellow graduate or senior fellow that we have carefully selected based on a number of factors. Your Mentor-Leader doesn’t replace your clinical mentor by any means. However, he or she is someone who has successfully gone through what you are going through and is where you want to be.

Your assigned Mentor-Leader will reach out to you via phone or email on a regular basis to provide you with a personal contact point. Their purpose and focus is to keep a pulse on how you are doing along your time in your program and help you through any rough patches or answer questions for you as they arise. Your mentor-leader will have access to your FOTO data, your skill checklists, technique exam information, and information regarding your progression through your program in order to better understand how you are doing and how they may be of assistance.

While we have successfully implemented this program with our fellows, we are still working on getting it in place for our residents. If you are a fellow who is interested in applying to

serve as an EIM Mentor-Leader, please contact Dr. Julie Whitman (julie@eimpt.com).

International

We announced this last time but want to reiterate here: We continue to enroll Canadian colleagues who are students in EIM R107 Radiology and many Canadians are enrolling in the entire tDPT curriculum. There are a number of additional international developments arising as EIM moves our profession forward on a global scale, with more discussions in progress with organizations in Canada and with physiotherapists in the Caribbean. Stay tuned for updates!

Certificate Programs- Growing!

There have been some big changes in the certification programs. In the past, EIM’s 5 tracks (Manual Therapy, Upper and Lower Quarter, Spinal Disorder Management, and Extremity Management) have met a great professional development need for those wanting to grow but for whom a residency or fellowship isn’t a good fit. We are now offering a single Manual Therapy Certification Track. This new program includes a Virtual Rounds component, a choice of electives and an improved examination process. Just as before, if and when the time is right, these folks can transfer the credits taken in the certificate tracks they have successfully completed toward residency and fellowship if done within 3 years.

Weekend Intensives

As many of you know the WI courses are now available in Moodle approximately 30 days prior to your live onsite course. Please make sure you are enrolled in the correct location and contact the EIM office (1-888-709-7096) immediately if you are not! Each student is responsible for completing the pre-course quiz and the post-course survey along with attending both days of the WI course to receive a certificate. Course certificates are available when state CEU approval has been granted. You will receive an email when certificates are ready for your location.

Big View Updates

Clinic where you work: Fearon Physical Therapy - owner/operator; clinical coal face

Spouse’s name; when were you married? Where?: Married to Helene M. Fearon in Chicago, Illinois in August of ‘81

Kids: Daughter - Madeline Rose Fearon, 25 y/o and Son - Jack Francis Fearon, 23 y/o

Siblings?: #3 child of 9 - 4 brothers: Patrick, Frank, Kevin, Matt and 4 sisters: Peggy, Connie, Mary, Meagan

Grandkids? (no way)

Which EIM program are you in and what stage are you at?: Faculty for FVR, WI, and Clinical Decision Making

Where were you born and when?: Akron, Ohio 1955 - when they still made rubber

What kind of extra-curricular activities/groups did you participate in/belong to in high school?: Wrestling, pole vaulting, and obeying the Jesuits

Where did you go to college? What was your major? What year did you graduate?: The Ohio State University, BS PT; Northwestern University, MSPT; Northern Arizona University, DPT - It took me 3 times, I guess I just didn’t get it!

Favorite color?: Really? Blue, like skies

Favorite food?: Sea

Least favorite food?: Lima Beans

Do you have pets?: My dog Patch just died

How did you get into Physical Therapy field?: Pure accident. I went to school to be a pharmacist. I blew up several beakers and decided that this may not be for me but I wanted to avoid the marines.

What is your favorite thing about your job?: Succeeding with the tough patient who has failed elsewhere

Where did you go on your best vacation ever? What made it so special?: Ireland - watching my family revel in their roots

If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go and why?: Down under - great therapists to spend time with, great fly fishing, great outdoors, and great beer

Are you left- or right-handed?: Right, but Britt confuses me at times

Did you serve in the military?: Near miss

List your hobbies.: Rock climbing (almost retired), fly fishing (almost good), outdoors (almost anti-social), music (almost able to play, totally down with listening)

What’s the strangest/funniest thing that’s ever happened to you at work?: Waking up and realizing that I had spent the night

If you could meet any celebrity, who would it be and why?: I don’t even like the word. It makes me think that people do not have enough focus on the intrinsic value of their own life. So… how about Socrates because I would like to know if it was all real.

Who is your hero and why?: My father - born poor and never realized it, he simply knew that he wanted to do more with his mind than be a steel worker. He worked his own way through college and raised 9 kids who have 8 other best friends all with the same last name.

What is your favorite advice your parents gave you?: Dad - You will only have one problem with joining the military, taking orders from people that you are a lot smarter than. Mom - You should marry that one.

What is your favorite childhood memory?: Waking up in the Rockies and realizing that the world was bigger than Ohio which would now never be adequate

What was your greatest accomplishment before you turned 18?: Making it to 17

What is your most secret talent?: I can’t tell. (Shhhhhhh I write fine prose.)

What was your most embarrassing moment?: On a Monday morning of my first clinical affiliation, my academic clinical coordinator showed up. I did not. I had had a fine night in the Chicago blues bars; it ended at sunrise swimming in Lake Michigan.

If you could be granted one excellent talent/skill/ability, what would it be?: Flying - no plane just plain flying, like Icarus

What was the best gift you’ve ever given or received?: A friend deciding that if she had to die she would do it in my arms and then doing so

What is something that most people don’t know about you?: I was VERY shy.

If money were not an issue, what would your dream job be?: Back country fly fishing guide

What is your favorite TV show?: GameDay

(Tim’s story is continued on the next page.)

Timothy Fearon has been caught in the EIM spotlight!

What is your favorite movie?: Braveheart

What is your favorite book?: Lonesome Dove

What is your biggest pet peeve?: Failure to demonstrate personal responsibility

Describe your most notable professional activities over the last quarter and how EIM training has contributed to your performance and our success in these endeavors: Teaching fellows & residents in multiple different ways - online, in print and in discourse, in weekend courses, and in the clinic 1:1 mentor hours

I spend much of my time treating patients who have failed physical therapy elsewhere. It gets disheartening to hear what their previous experience of physical therapy has been. Many are truly easy patients to stratify and to succeed with if they are simply placed in the right category and then progressed appropriately. Simply put, the basics were not done right, if at all. I am a strong advocate of PT as the best first stop in musculoskeletal medicine. We can do more for the majority of musculoskeletal injuries than any other subspecialty in medicine, but only if we actually deliver a consistent standard of care. In my daily practice I often feel like a voice in the wilderness, a zealot in a different profession than the public meets under the tag of physical therapy.

Teaching with EIM fellows-in-training makes me feel like I am not from another planet. It has been very gratifying to watch fellows perform in a stellar fashion in writing their thoughts and to demonstrate mindful presence in improving performance of technique on course and in the clinic. The most rewarding thing, however, has been to watch the fellows in training passionately pursue refining of a thinking process to determine when to use which set of skills.

Teaching at entry-level is a necessity for any profession. In my adjunct role I often feel like exhibit A, somebody who actually does it, a novelty to be observed, like visiting the zoo. The students don’t yet have a matrix to place the experiential realities of treating patients into. The full-time faculty members are obligated to first deliver the basic information upon which the students will be tested when they sit for their licensing exam. The exposure that they get in their clinical rotations is so variable that the poor students cannot help but be confused. They often look upon case illustrations as amazing and their questions make me wonder just what is the state of the actual standard of care in

the environment where our educational system purports that they will get their “clinical education”.

The subset of therapists who pursue an advanced education through EIM have acknowledged with intellectual honesty that their entry-level education was inadequate for them to hope to perform at the level that they know is possible. They recognize that a certain level of care should be expected if we are to embody the lofty implications of our chosen title, Doctor of Physical Therapy. Without reaching the appropriate standard of practice we will cheapen the very meaning of the word “doctor” and the profession as a whole. These students arrive with an intrinsic beacon that drives them to a higher level of professionalism than that which they have been performing. They arrive with a thirst for knowledge that places them in a position to be capable of performance in the upper echelon of their profession.

The educational vehicle created through EIM fills a need for the truly ethical professional who wants not only to practice at the highest level possible, but to also raise that standard universally through elevating their practice level and teaching those around them. We each have our strong suits, our primary contributions. These are muted if kept to yourself, enhancing only your experience of life within your profession.

We have researchers, we have educators and we have clinicians. Without the clinicians the first two don’t matter, there is no profession. Without clinicians first becoming educated with the basic building blocks of knowledge and then perpetually informing themselves with emerging evidence, we have a stagnant profession. Stagnation is a loss of current, no directional flow, a stage of dying. As a 30-year orthopaedic manual therapist, I have a unique body of knowledge and a drive to pass on that knowledge to the next generation of therapists. Indeed I think that it is my obligation to do so and in so doing, to elevate the profession as a whole, to leave it better than it was before I entered, better because I was present while I was there. Imagine if every physical therapist contributed to the profession in some similar fashion. EIM has given me a much broader way to make that contribution.

Timothy Fearon has been caught in the EIM spotlight! (Continued)

Mentor CE Opportunities EIM offers a wide range of continuing education classes all over the U.S. & if you are registered as an EIM mentor you receive a discount! As long as your mentor agreement is on file, simply state that you are a mentor on your CE paper

registration and you will get 15% off. For more course info click here and see below for what’s coming up.

You also have the opportunity to join our Manual Therapy Certification Program! Email Donna for more details.

DATE COURSE FACULTY/LOCATION

ONLINE An Introduction to the Diagnosis and Management

of Chronic Spinal Pain Online, Self Study

ONLINE OCS Test Prep Course Online, Self Study

ONLINE Evidence-based Practice Online, Self Study

ONLINE SCS Prep Course Online, Self Study

ONLINE Healthy Aging Care Series Online, Self Study

ONLINE Manual Therapy History and Professional Growth Online, Self Study

4/16/2012-

5/27/2012 Radiology/Essentials of Musculoskeletal Imaging Online, Self Study

4/14/2012-

4/15/2012 Management of Lumbopelvic Disorders

Bob Boyles, PT, DSc: Bakersfield, CA

Jake Magel, PT, DSc: Fishers, IN

Tim Flynn, PT, PhD, OCS, FAAOMPT: Arlington, VA

Mike Walker, PT, DSc: Oakdale, MN

David Browder, DPT, OCS: Enfield, CT

8/25/2012–

8/26/2012

(online portion

starts July 16)

Evidence-based Sports Physical Therapy

Competencies Casey Unverzagt, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS, CSCS: Denver, CO

8/11/2012-

8/12/2012 Management of Cervical and Thoracic Disorders

Tim Flynn, PT, PhD, OCS, FAAOMPT: Tacoma, WA

David Browder, DPT, OCS: Bolingbrook, IL

Mike Walker, PT, DSc: Norman, OK

Tim Fearon, PT, DPT, FAAOMPT: Baton Rouge, LA

Jason Rodeghero, PT, DPT, OCS, ATC, FAAOMPT: Boise, ID

8/18/2012-

8/19/2012 Management of Cervical and Thoracic Disorders

Andrew Bennett, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT: Roseville, CA

Jake Magel, PT, DSc: Chicago, IL

Jason Rodeghero, PT, DPT, OCS, ATC, FAAOMPT: Austin, TX

Brian Young, PT, DSc, OCS, FAAOMPT: Atlanta, GA

Bob Boyles, PT, DSc: Newark, DE

8/25/2012-

8/26/2012 Management of Cervical and Thoracic Disorders

Jake Magel, PT, DSc: Bakersfield, CA

Bill Garcia, PT, DPT: Fishers, IN

Rob Wainner, PT, PhD: Arlington, VA

Paul Mintken, PT, DPT: Oakdale, MN

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I am originally from Pittsburgh, PA and went to Penn State where I earned my undergraduate degree in Biology in 1991. I went to Emory University for my Master’s in Physical Therapy and graduated in 1996. I then worked in Birmingham, AL, Durango, CO, and Nashville, TN, before I finally found my home in Boise, ID. I worked for HealthSouth for 4 years here before starting

a private practice in 2003, Physiotherapy, PA.

We grew quickly to a 5-provider practice and developed a practice that treats a wide variety of orthopaedic patients. I have had the chance to work closely with Olympic gold medalists and my main clinical interests are in treating the spine and hip. I was constantly pushed by my colleagues to become a leader in both clinical and business aspects of the practice. I realized that physical therapy was evolving quickly and made the decision in 2008 to enter the tDPT program at Regis, which I graduated from in 2010. It was at that time that I was truly exposed to the concepts of EBP and was fortunate to come into contact with Evidence In Motion. It was also at that time that I was diagnosed with MS, and had to re-evaluate my priorities. As I progressed personally through the medical system, I realized that we have a chance to profoundly impact others and decided to progress on in the Fellowship.

EIM has been an integral part of my progression, both personally and professionally. While I had the chance to complete my Manual Fellowship elsewhere, I opted to take the “long way” offered by EIM and immerse myself

in their demanding program. I feel strongly that when we have patients who come to us with faith that we are current and competent, we are obligated to meet that charge. It is through the constant stimulation and interaction with colleagues offered in this program that I am assured that I am doing my best. I have also developed great friendships with many in the program and have been able to laugh often with and enjoy the great personalities that we have (although Rob’s singing at AAOMPT has me a bit concerned).

In 2011, St. Luke’s- Elks Rehab, a large 23-clinic hospital based system, approached me to acquire my practice and become their Director of Orthopaedic Rehab. This next step in my career has been extremely challenging as I have been charged with integrating rehabilitation into an ACO-model system. The concerns of a large 100+therapist hospital system are a bit different than my 5-therapist practice! I have brought EIM in as a Network Partner to help develop a best practice model and am proud that we have a great group of clinicians who are engaged and excited.

In Boise, I enjoy cycling, hiking, stand-up paddling, and the wonderful life offered here – it is hard to be bored!

The Fellow We love This Quarter: David Fleckenstein, PT, DPT, OCS