Incentives In Physical Therapy
What the payment model rewards, and how that shapes the care patients actually receive.
Do Most Physical Therapists Have Patient Care in Mind? · Moses Lake Professional PharmacyFree resources
Learn the approach before you spend a dollar.
No pills, X-rays, MRIs, injections or surgeries. Just movement. These are the resources that show you what that actually means.
Three free videos
A short series showing how you can discover the movements and postures that relieve your pain, using the same principles as a VMPT assessment.
Watching them costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Plenty of people sort out a flare-up with these alone, which is fine by me.
Video library
Videos featuring Brian Westlake
Talks and conversations on how physical therapy is paid for, measured and practiced.
How to Lift on the Farm
Practical lifting strategy for people whose work does not stop because their back hurts.
How to Lift on the Farm · Cornell Small Farms
Outcomes-Based Physical Therapy
Posture, load, and why measuring the result changes how care gets delivered.
How Posture can Save a Farmer’s Back · Cornell Small FarmsPatient story
Kim: “from being in rough shape” to getting her life back
A few minutes on what the visits were like and what changed, in her own words, not mine.
Podcasts
Conversations elsewhere
Ep 155: How To Find Affordable Physical Therapy!
Health Solutions with Shawn & Janet Needham, R.Ph. Brian on what physical therapy actually costs, why courses of care run as long as they do, and how to find care that ends.
Ep 33: How Physical Therapists Prove Their Value in Value-Based Care
Future-Proof PT with Dana Strauss and Alex Bendersky. Brian on moving physical therapy upstream into primary care, musculoskeletal triage, and how early PT prevents the MRIs and injections that drive up the cost of care.
Looking for Brian on your show?
Brian speaks about mechanical diagnosis, the economics of physical therapy and outcomes-based care. Email brian.westlake@virtualmechanicalpt.com.
When you are ready