PTupdate.com was created to fulfill my desire and need to continue growing as a clinician. In today's healthcare environment, and its surplus of clinicians and declining volume of patients, it is the expert clinician who will succeed. This site can help that process by allowing a volume of eager and motivated clinicians to interact and teach each other the advanced skills necessary to succeed.  Whether your goal is to increase business, sit for a specialization exam, increase your bottom line, or just keep up to date with current literature, this site may benefit you. 

The site is set up so that members can jump on each day when checking email, etc. and learn something quickly and easily.  Or, one can spend hours going through all the older abstracted articles, links, treatment ideas, etc.  No book or course is going to give the volume of information this site does for the price.

The internet now allows physical therapists from around the world to interact, and I find the opportunity to share ideas with clinicians from all over the world to be exhilarating! I hope you enjoy.

Inside, members enjoy the following:

• All of the author's protocols, evaluation tips and treatment tips (including over 230 instructional photos of advanced techniques).
• Detailed daily article reviews from current literature, including: Biomechanics, Physician & Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Spine, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Foot and Ankle, JOSPT, Physical Therapy Case Reports, The American Journal of Orthopedics, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Orthopaedic Nursing, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Journal of Athletic Training The American Journal of Occupational Therapy,, and many others.  The site author personally abstracts pertinent articles for info that is valuable to a PT  and comments as to their clinical significance for a PT.  Over 1300 articles already on file!
• Video Movies showing manual techniques
• The author's own "Five Steps to Running A Successful Clinic"
• Printable forms/surveys/outcomes measures
• Members favorite evaluation and treatment ideas

• Tips by physicians for PTupdate members only 
• Updates with new information, products,and breaking news
• Review of current literature
• Open forum. Post a clinical question and allow your peers to help
• New program ideas by people who have actually done them
• Course and book reviews
• Marketing ideas
• The authors own comprehensive outcomes program-printable and ready to use
• Used equipment for sale (Tight budget? Raise some money by selling something you don't use!)
• Job postings
• Fast loading pages-no banners or graphics to slow things down
• Links to a huge selection of PT sites, medical search engines, medical journals,  universities, foreign PT associations, etc.  Over 300 sites listed!
  
  

Join now and open a whole new world of learning.

Disclaimer:  This site is for physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, and athletic trainers only.  All information is intended for informational and educational purposes only.  Ptupdate.com  is in no-way responsible for the accuracy and validity of the information contained herein.  It is recommended that professional judgment be used prior to implementation of any information contained in these web pages.  Member submissions of certain ideas and hypothesis is intended to stimulate critical thinking and foster continued research in the field. This website cannot guarantee the reliability and results of any techniques submitted.  We will not be held responsible or liable for any damages resulting from the use or misuse of the sites information.  All protocols and outcomes programs are the property of John Duffy, and are not to be reproduced, copied, sold, or altered without permission from the author.  The protocols are used by the author with excellent success.  However, following these does not necessarily promise success by another clinician.  Amounts of force, therapeutic touch, and many other factors go into a treatment regime, and these factors cannot be conveyed in this forum.