TEAM MEMBER SPOTLIGHT Kathleen Helps Us Stay at the Forefront of Physical Therapy
When physical therapist Kathleen Young joined PT Pro in 2007, it was due to Maureen’s focus on one-on-one care and her passion for education. “Maureen is really excited about education, and I liked that. Her excitement about the physical therapy world is contagious,” Kathleen says.
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It’s fitting, then, that not long after joining the team, Kathleen helped Maureen build on the education focus. “Maureen had done training through the Institute of Physical Art (IPA), and she wanted to introduce me to it. But with most of the classes taking place on the East Coast and me having two little kids, it was challenging,” Kathleen explains. When the IPA offered a course in Seattle, Kathleen attended, and the organizers told her to let them know if PT Pro ever wanted to host a class. Kathleen brought the idea back to Maureen, and from there, PT Pro helped introduce the IPA approach to Seattle, and our clinic became a center of continuing education. The benefits for the practice, and for our patients, were immediately clear. The Institute for Physical Art approaches physical therapy by looking at the whole person, not just the back pain or ankle sprain that brought them in. It addresses how injury and pain affects efficiencies in their body and how they walk differently or shift their weight because of it. “By looking at the whole individual, we get a better outcome. It sets us apart from other practices. Having classes and introducing this perspective to our staff has put us at another level in our practice,” Kathleen shares. “It opens our eyes to another layer that can help get a person to their most efficient and functional capacity.” PT Pro has been offering continuing education courses for over 10 years now, and Kathleen coordinates the classes and workshops. “It takes a lot of coordination,” she says, but her passion has only grown. “It’s grown so that most of our staff can be introduced to continuing education in these courses,” she says. “Going to the same courses helps us all speak the same language. A lot of people come to our clinic and tell us, ‘I feel like no one has ever looked at my injury this way. No one has ever looked at all the pieces.’ That feeling patients get? It has to do with us bringing in classes and trying to be a center of excellence for continuing education.”
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3 tbsp pure sesame oil 3/4 tsp fresh ginger, grated 2 cloves garlic, chopped 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar 3 scallions, thinly sliced 1/4 cup chopped almonds
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4 medium zucchini
Salt, to taste
3 medjool dates, pitted and softened in warm water for 5 minutes 3 1/2 tbsp creamy, unsweetened almond butter 3 tbsp coconut aminos
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Directions
1. If you have a spiralizer, use it to cut zucchini into noodles. Otherwise, use a peeler. Salt zucchini. Allow zucchini to “sweat” out water for 1 hour, wrap in a paper towel, and squeeze the water out. 2. In a food processor, blend dates with almond butter and aminos until smooth. 3. Add sesame oil, ginger, garlic, and vinegar and pulse until sauce is smooth. 4. In a pan, sauté zucchini noodles until heated and slightly softened. 5. Toss zucchini noodles with prepared sauce and top with scallions and almonds.
A quick look at the numbers: •
20 courses hosted at PT Pro
• 462 course hours instructed at PT Pro with an average of 25-plus students per class (mostly from the PNW but also from across the U.S.) • 46 hours per year on average of continuing education offered by PT Pro, doubling the 20 hours of continuing education required by the state of Washington
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