Written by Megan Colletti, MS, OTR/L Pain Consultants of East Tennessee is proud to be a part of the National Council on Aging Falls Awareness week from September 18-24, 2022. You may be asking, what does chronic pain have to do with falling? Why do we care? The Center for Disease Control has identified 33 [...]
October is National Physical Therapy Month and we couldn't let time go by without recognizing our very own Laurel Andersen, PT! Laurel joined our team in 2019 as our lead physical therapist and has made such a wonderful impact on the lives of the patients she sees. Recently, a patient talked about Laurel's impact in [...]
October is designated as National Physical Therapy Month. In this post, we summarize the history of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and the physical therapy profession below. The organization started in 1921 called the American Women’s Physical Therapeutic Association, having 274 members nationally, referred more as Reconstruction Aides than physical therapists It then changed [...]
Pain Consultants of East Tennessee was honored to host the Tennessee Physical Therapy Association quarterly meeting on February 13, 2018. The meeting was attended by physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, and physical therapy assistant students from around the Knoxville area. More than 35 practitioners in attendance were able to discuss changes in physical therapy practice [...]
Pat Gosper spent 43 days laying on her couch due to nerve pain she experienced following a knee replacement. She was referred to Pain Consultants of East Tennessee and our Physical Therapy department for help. Watch the short video below to hear about Pat's recovery process! https://youtu.be/zkTYH6qcj1o
Pain Consultants of East Tennessee was honored to be invited to Roane State Community College to educate the students on the management of chronic pain. In attendance were the second year Occupational Therapy Assistant and Physical Therapy Assistant students as well as Massage Therapy students. The students expressed a great interest in Dr. James Choo’s [...]
