4D: Deep Dive into Degenerative Diseases - ANPT

4D: Deep Dive into Degenerative Diseases - ANPT


Latest Episodes

DD SIG Episode 51: Skilled Maintenance Therapy with Bobby Hand
October 23, 2024

In this episode, host Ken Vinacco talks with Bobby Hand about the role and intricacies of skilled maintenance therapy for individuals with degenerative diseases. Skilled maintenance therapy is the car

DD SIG Episode 50: Your Favorite PT Interventions
August 30, 2024

In this special episode, our podcast team interviewed listeners and former guests at CSM 2024 to find out what they were excited about doing when treating people with neurodegenerative conditions. We

DD SIG Episode 49: Muscular Dystrophy with Claudia SenesacDD SIG Episode 49: Muscular Dystrophy with Claudia Senesac
July 23, 2024

In this installment of our series on rare neurologic diseases, host Ken Vinacco talks with Claudia Senesac about physical therapy for people with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Becker Muscular

DD SIG Episode 48: Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy with Megan Iammarino
June 26, 2024

In this installment of our series on rare neurologic diseases, Ken Vinnaco talks with Megan Iammarino about physical therapy for people with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD), an umbrella term tha

DDSIG: Bonus Episode-  CSM Platform Award: Parkinson’s Disease Rehabilitation Access and Utilization in Black and African American Chicagoland Communities – with Michelle Walaszek 
June 13, 2024

In this episode, Chris interviews Michelle Walaszek, a winner of the DDSIG platform award at CSM Boston in 2024. Michelle, a PhD candidate and research associate in the Knowledge Translation of Exerci

DDSIG: Bonus Episode- CSM Platform Award: Gait Initiation Dynamics in Parkinson Disease – with CJ Duppen 
May 13, 2024

In this episode, Parm interviews Chelsea CJ Duppen, a winner of the DDSIG platform award at CSM Boston in 2024. CJ, a fourth year PhD student at the University of North Carolina, works with Dr. Mike

DDSIG: Bonus Episode- CSM Poster Award: The Tinetti POMA Discriminates Between Fallers and Non-Fallers in pALS -with Kayla Chomko
April 17, 2024

In this episode, Chris Burke interviews Kayla Chomko who, along with Jen Canbeck, Lauren Tabor Gray, and Rania Massad, won the DDSIG Best Poster Award at APTAs Combined Sections Meeting in February 2

DD SIG: Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) 2024 Preview – Bonus Episode 
February 08, 2024

In this episode of 4D, hosts Parm Padgett and 4D student intern Shannon Brown talk through the degenerative disease programming scheduled for CSM 2024. If youre going to CSM this February, tune in wh

DD SIG Episode 47: Friedreich’s Ataxia with Jeannie Stephenson and Staci Shearin
January 28, 2024

In this installment of our series on rare neurologic diseases, Christina Burke talks with Jeannie Stephenson and Staci Shearin about Friedreichs Ataxia, a progressive, autosomal recessive hereditary

DD SIG Episode 46: Post-Polio Syndrome with Carolyn DaSilva
January 02, 2024

In this installment of our series on rare neurologic diseases, Ken Vinacco talks with Carolyn DaSilva about post-polio syndrome (PPS), which can occur in polio survivors 15-20 years after the initial