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Welcome to the January 2022 issue of In Focus with PT Plus Physical Therapy  What's New at PT Plus PT Plus Winter Store Have you always wanted to match your favorite PT Plus employee? Now you can! We have opened our 2022 PT Plus Winter Store, through Friday, January 21st. All items will ship approximately four weeks after the store has closed, with $5 flat rate shipping. Shop now!   New Year, New Forms As we enter the new 2022 year, we will be requesting that you fill out forms you may have already seen before. These are to keep up with healthcare compliance standards and appreciate your help in getting them completed! Thank you for understanding. Get to Know Our New Therapists In December we welcomed Alissa and Lindsey to the PT Plus team! We are excited to have them on board with us and wanted you to join in the excitement. To get to know them a little better, we're sharing three fun facts about each of them:  Alissa Pearson PT, DPT - Third Ward & Thiensville Clinics 1. She has traveled to 7 countries outside the US. 2. Every Thanksgiving she partakes in a family "British Bake-Off" competition. 3. She is currently training to compete in a bodybuilding competition this summer.  Lindsey Mills PT, DPT - Brookfield & Elm Grove Clinics 1. She recently moved back home to WI after living in Seattle, WA for 10 years staying busy hiking in the mountains 2. She belly laughs each day thanks to the entertainment of her two year old son, Camden 3. One of her goals in 2022 is to master homemade pasta to share with friends and family Leave us a Review Support a locally owned small business by referring your family and friends. We care about all of our patients and rely on the word-of-mouth marketing that you provide. If you have a testimonial about PT Plus to share, we would love to hear from you! Leave a Google Review: Bay View – Brookfield – Elm Grove – Greenfield – Thiensville Third Ward – Racine – Slinger – West Bend Leave a Yelp Review: Bay View – Brookfield – Elm Grove – Greenfield – Thiensville Third Ward – Racine – Slinger – West Bend Featured Testimonial   Expect to Get Better? You Probably Will.
Research has shown that positive expectations increase the chances of a good outcome. It's the old self-fulfilling prophecy; your attitude determines your approach to situations. If you believe you'll be successful, you'll likely put in more effort. You'll be more willing to try new things, take some risks and keep trying after failures or setbacks. A negative attitude will likely mean that you'll take your first failure or setback as confirmation that what you're trying won't work or isn't possible and you'll give up. Why waste time and effort on something that's doomed to failure anyway? Your Expectations Influence Your Results There's some research to prove that positive thinking and expectations make a difference in rehab settings too. A review of 23 articles looking at outcomes for shoulder pain found a few interesting things. First, patients who expected to recover and believed that they had some control of the outcome, ended up doing better than those who didn't. Second, optimistic patients were found to have less pain and disability after completing rehab. Third, patients who believed they'd have pain and disability after surgery tended to have - you guessed it - pain and disability after their surgery. Research says that you tend to get what you expect. So Do Your Therapist's Your attitude is important, but what about your therapist's? There isn't much research specific to PT, but there is a study done in elementary schools that might give us some clues. Two psychologists - Rosenthal and Jacobs did a study showing that teacher expectations had an influence on student performance. They told teachers that randomly selected students in their classes were tested and found to be "late bloomers". These students were expected to show large improvements in academic performance during the school year. When the students were tested 8 months later, the students the teachers believed would improve the most, did. Why? When teachers think students have a lot of potential to improve, they hold them to higher standards. They teach more complex materials, don't settle for simplistic answers and are more willing to spend time instructing and working with those students. It's pretty easy to see how this could cross over into a PT clinic. If your PT thinks you can get better, they'll probably put more effort into designing your program, spend more time with you and push you harder than someone they don't believe has a lot of room for improvement. To have the best chance for a good outcome, you and your therapist both need to expect one. You probably will. References
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