newsletters & articles

Red Barn PT News serves the Upper Valley medical and fitness community with a quarterly newsletter, focused on physical therapy perspectives on events and news in our area, significant developments in the PT field, summaries of interesting articles from the current literature, PT items of interest in the New Hampshire and Vermont regions, and--of course--what's new at Red Barn PT.   Newsletters are in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format, and are between 180KB and 350KB in size. If you are connected by normal phone line, download time will range from 20 seconds to more than a minute.

	Summer 2005 Articles by Kim Likosky on the MacKenzie Method, and Betsy Ogden on "Pilates in the Rehab Environment."		Winter 2005 Articles by Linda Hazard on "Postural Change and Osteoporosis" and Liz Blum on Lymphedema Management.
	Fall 2004 Features articles by Elizabeth on RBPTA's upcoming relocation; by Shauuna Grady on "Pregnancy and Physical Therapy"; and a journal review on "The Benefits of Exercises for Community-dwelling Older Adults."		Summer 2004 Articles by Kim on "Management of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome"; Elizabeth on "Core Strengthening" and "Pelvic Floor Muscle Assessment."
	Spring 2004 Articles by Liz Blum on "The Treatment for Lower Limb Lymphedema"; by Elizabeth on "Dance Screening" and and update on the "IBEX" (in-bed exerciser).		The September 2002 issue of the Valley Business News carried an article by Elizabeth on the effects of exercise on the different types of muscles. See the full text of the article HERE.
	Elizabeth and Mandy's research work has gained national attention with the publication of their case-study on exercise for bedridden patients in the Fall issue of The Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy. Click HERE to retrieve article (227KB). Click HERE for images and graphs which accompany article (177KB)