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Eric Robertson, PT, DPT, MFA, is associate professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT, and associate professor of Clinical Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, CA.
Eric Robertson, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT. Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy. Clinical Associate Professor of Physical Therapy. Dr. Robertson earned a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from Quinnipiac University and a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) from Boston University.
- A Hand Raised in Concern
- A Handsomely Negative Impact
- The Hand Rehabilitation Section
- Hands Are For Holding
- Getting A Grip on This Problem
At the 2014 APTA Combined Sections Meeting in Las Vegas, during the Orthopaedic Section membership meeting, Dr. Catherine Patla stood up and expressed a notion to the Section’s Board of Directors. She was concerned physical therapists were giving away their hands (she also expressed a similar concern to the AAOMPT Executive at AAOMPT 2014). After o...
From a profession-wide perspective, there’s not much that can easily be done to counteract clinic-level policies. Certainly, both Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy are qualified to perform rehabilitation to distal upper extremity injuries. Furthermore, I think the ultimate care pathway, for many injuries common to the area, involves both pr...
I don’t know any more than a couple people in the Hand Rehab Section of the APTA. Perhaps that’s my issue. Perhaps it’s because the Section itself is a bit of an anomaly. Of the 18 Sections within the APTA, it’s the only one designated by an anatomical focus. The other sections are delineated by practice areas like Orthopaedic or Neurologic, settin...
To me, this boils down to a grassroots effort, and is an issue of personal responsibility as a professional. You cannot in good conscious, let your clinic enforce and carry out a policy that prohibits, or through practice, eliminates the opportunity to treat any body region, especially the hand. We all know the outcry when outside professions claim...
By all means, this is just a suggestion, but we need to start somewhere and why not now? Please comment, edit, innovate, or ACT on this: 1. Hand Rehab education should be led by physical therapists as often as possible in DPT programs. 2. Individual PT’s in clinics with hand-prohibitive policies should challenge these, and reach out to professional...
NPA Think Tank, founded by Eric Robertson in 2006 was a blog dedicated to critical observations of health, science, and the profession of physical therapy. Eric originally began this blog as a curious experiment to learn about blogging, but it quickly developed into a passion.
Eric Robertson, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT. FACULTY PROFILE. Clinical Associate Professor of Physical Therapy. CONTACT (323) 442-2900. ericrobe@usc.edu.
In addition to his photographic work, Eric Robertson is a physical therapy professor, healthcare administrator, and public speaker with a national and international reputation. Follow him on Twitter @EricRobertson and on Instagram, @ericrobertson.
