Physio Connection was created as a professional network designed exclusively for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and allied health professionals in order to improve the spread of information and help connect those professionals with each other. The site was launched in January 2012 and is still in the beta (testing) version. In this phase, we hope to gain feedback from some of our early adopters on the need for a site like this and what functions it should serve. It currently has pages for discussions, forums, events, jobs, CEU courses, as well as a place to post pictures and videos. We are hoping to create a community of health professionals who hope to share new treatment techniques, discuss current topics in the allied health field, and improve the spread of information.

I really hope that members of Physio Connection will join this site with the hopes and goals of improving their knowledge, discover new treatment techniques and share information to become a better clinician or business owner. As we all know, all therapists are different, every patient unique, each treatment personalized. This creates an unquantifiable variety in treatments for the huge number of diagnoses that we treat. What evidenced-based medicine and Physio Connection hope to do is to keep the therapist from treating the same patient the same way and getting the same unfavorable result. If I’m not mistaken, I think that is the definition of insanity. Instead, we want to foster the need to,and improve the efficiency of, discovering new information to improve patient outcomes. This may be through something as simple as a chat with a therapist from another state or across the globe or reading a post that references a new research article that was just published.  

Are we ready to join another “network”? I am not sure yet. That’s why I hope to get some early feedback and make any changes necessary to either grow this site into a productive and useful site, or head back to the drawing board. So if you are a PT or in the health field, check out the site. Let me know your thoughts. Feel free to email me on the site at anytime!

Michael Phillip, PT
Founder
Physio Connection

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