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A few words about HODS
Whether you’re a sole practitioner or have a practice with multiple health care professionals, you have to be competitive to keep the doors open and the lights on. You got into the field to help people, but the reality of our economy it that you have to make money at what you’re doing—or you have to stop doing it.
Hands-on Diagnostics, or HODS, was started by professionals in the field of physical therapy and health care. HODS personnel know the area. They know what physical therapists run into, both as practitioners and as businessmen. And HODS is here to help you keep those lights on, to help you help your patients, and to help you increase your viability as you go.
What we stand for
Hands-on Diagnostics has a fourfold purpose:
- To advance the field of physical therapy by helping the physical therapist become an autonomous diagnostic source with our diagnostic tools.
- To help our HODS partners establish themselves as diagnosticians, so they can provide diagnostic services for both their own patients and for other health care practitioners.
- To expand these same services to MDs and DOs who prefer to deliver such services in-house.
- To support and conduct research into electrophysiological and vestibular testing, and ultrasound imaging, along with other diagnostic technologies, and to make these technologies known and used.
Want to learn more about Hands-On Diagnostics? You can visit HODS primary website here.
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This is what Physical Therapists say
We recently received an urgent request for an EMG from one of our referring orthopedic Physician Assistants. He was concerned for one of his patients who developed a sudden foot drop (without lower back pain). Although the MRI of her lower back was positive for L4-5 :L5-S1 Disc bulges with nerve root impingement, the neurologist was convinced that there was a nerve impingement at the knee, and the foot drop was not coming from the back. The neurologist did not recommend neurodiagnostic testing. As a Within days, I performed an NCV/EMG for this patient, which was positive for L 4-5 lumbar radiculopathy. She started physical therapy treatment for her lower back the following day, including lumbar joint mobilizations/ manipulation, nerve gliding/ flossing, biofeedback and strengthening exercise, and within 2 weeks she demonstrated improved strength of ankle dorsiflexion and continues to progress. Throughout treatment, she had minimal to no lower back pain. The neurologist was still unconvinced that the problem was originating from the lower back, so he ordered an MRI of the knee/ fibular head, which was negative. (While waiting for the MRI results, I performed a NMSKUS, which was also negative for pathology of the fibular nerve at the fibular head.)We had a patient come in after wrist fracture completed PT and was doing well. She then contacted Dr. David one morning when she could no longer move her thumb. Dr. David told her to come in (we are a HODS Approved Diagnostic Center) and did an MSKUS on her thumb tendon and found it was ruptured. He was able to send her to the Orthopedic Surgeon for repair and she is now doing exceptionally well because of us being able to help her with the testing.We had a significant win with an insurance company that was denying a firefighter a meniscal arthoscopy due to poor MRI quality. We are a HODS approved Diagnostic Center and we decided to do an MSKUS for his knee. After we sent the results to the patient’s Orthopedist, he forwarded them to the insurance company and they were convinced to allow MD to get another MRI which confirmed MSKUS findings. Pt. had a significant flap tear and underwent a successful menisectomy. MD and patient were extremely happy because we were able to help them.We recently started marketing to physicians the value of the diagnostic testing to our patients and how we get great results from the testing. As a HODS approved Diagnostic and Physical Therapy Center, we just acquired three new referral sources that we did not have them before. A Rheumatologist that sends us exams to determine her medical intervention as well as 2 orthos who are sending to us to perform MSK’s since they cannot do them. We are helping patients every single day even more effectively because of the diagnostics.We demonstrate and use MSKUS in our knee and shoulder workshops where we are able to show patients inside their body and identify on the spot their root problem. We are a HODS Approved Diagnostic Center. An orthopedic doc recently called us and asked us to do an EMG test on a patient because he and a neurosurgeon disagreed on the cause of the foot drop. EMG/NCV was able to confirm radiculopathy which is what the ortho has suspected. Now the patient is doing already better because he had the proper medical and PT management.We recently had a patient that came in s/p TKR and knee and foot pain and numbness. As a HODS approved PT and Diagnostic Center we did an EMG and found out that the real issue was an L5 radiculopathy. Her secondary back pain and primary knee pain/numbness resolved within a few visits. This is all because we are implementing Advanced Diangostics in our practice.