RE: hyperbaric oxygen treatments

[Guest guest]

Hi Matt,

The former COO at our facility had a son with signficant involvement from

Cerebral Palsy. Hyperbaric treatments were recommended and he saw what he

described as " dramatic improvement " with the treatment. He went to the

Children's Hospital in our area for the treatment...Kerry

Kerry Fleming PT, MS, LAc

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San Valley Medical Center

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Strategies needed for understaffed PT department

Hi All:

We have one PTA who will need to treat 24 people b/c we are losing our

PT and haven't found a replacement.

Any strategies you can recommend would be useful. So far I've come up

with the usual: concurrent sessions and groups and stations around the

therapy room.

any other suggestions?

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[Guest guest]

I have one suggestion as a resource for information, if they are still in

business:

Hyperbaric Healing Institute

10060 NW Prairie View Road

Kansas City, MO 64153

Deister

@...

www.HHI-KC.com

He and is wife started this facility because of their child's developmental

disability - maybe from cerebral palsy?, I can't remember now. Anyway,

sounds like a similar situation.

- Debbi Riess-Roam, PT

Director of Rehab

St. 's Medical Center

Blue Springs, MO 64014

Strategies needed for understaffed PT department

Hi All:

We have one PTA who will need to treat 24 people b/c we are losing our

PT and haven't found a replacement.

Any strategies you can recommend would be useful. So far I've come up

with the usual: concurrent sessions and groups and stations around the

therapy room.

any other suggestions?

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[Guest guest]

Matt -

I am the clinical manager of the wound center at our hospital. We

have hyperbaric chambers at our facility that we use as an adjunct

to wound healing. Currenty, there is no research to back the use of

HBO for cerebral palsy, autism, stroke, or any neurological

disorder. Many people try to promote HBO for these off-label uses,

and in turn give HBO a bad name for things we KNOW it's useful for.

Some HBO centers and " physicians " don't even achieve a therapeutic

value of oxygen in their treatments. If any changes are noted in

patients, it's antecdotal at best. Currently, Medicare and many

insurances only approve HBO for 13-15 diagnoses. You can access

information for the indications for HBO on the website www.uhms.org

on the left side of the page. Also, www.baromedical.com has a links

section with many sources. Currently there is research going on for

many other conditions, but nothing firm yet. Hope this helps.

Dexter R. Joyner, PT, DPT, CWS

Comprehensive Wound Center

Athens Regional Medical Center

1199 Prince Ave.

Athens, GA 30606

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> " You cannot provide therapy using a PTA without a PT who is

responsible

> for

> the POC. "

>

> And who is also responsible for the patient. " Therapy " is only

Therapy if a

> therapist is involved. This not just a philosophical position, it

is a

> legal tenet, and one which has gotten more than a few people in

trouble.

>

> Perhaps this thread should more accurately entitled " Strategies

needed for

> an UNSTAFFED PT department " ? What do we call an O.R. without

surgeons?

>

> Ken Mailly, PT

> Coordinator, PTA Program

> Bergen Community College

> Partner

> Mailly & Inglett Consulting, LLC

> www.NJPTAid.biz

> Bridging the Gap!

>

> " First he wrought, and afterwards he taught. "

> Chaucer

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> Strategies needed for understaffed PT

department

>

>

> Hi All:

> We have one PTA who will need to treat 24 people b/c we are losing

our

> PT and haven't found a replacement.

>

> Any strategies you can recommend would be useful. So far I've come

up

> with the usual: concurrent sessions and groups and stations around

the

> therapy room.

>

> any other suggestions?

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> Looking to start and own 100% of your own Practice?

> Visit www.InHomeRehab.com.

> PTManager encourages participation in your professional

association. Join

> and participate now!

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> Please identify yourself in all postings to PTManager.

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