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Whitney Lowe:                 Okay, welcome, everyone. And how are you doing today, Til? Til Luchau:                         It’s a good day. It’s great to be here. I’m looking forward to our topic here, looking forward to diving in. Whitney Lowe:                 Great. We’re going to be looking at some issues related to sacroiliac challenges today, and this is certainly […]

Whitney Lowe:                 Welcome to the Thinking Practitioner podcast. Til Luchau:                         A podcast where we dig into the fascinating issues, conditions and quandaries in the massage and manual therapy world today. Whitney Lowe:                 I’m Whitney Lowe. Til Luchau:                         And I’m Til Luchau. Both:                                   Welcome to The Thinking Practitioner. Whitney Lowe:                 Okay, welcome, everyone. And how are […]

Whitney: Hi, I’m Whitney Lowe, and this Episode 2 of the Thinking Practitioner Podcast. We’ll be continuing the conversation the conversation Til Luchau and I started last time about our roots and influences. But first, Til’s going to tell us about today’s opening sponsor. Til: This episode is sponsored by Handspring Publishing. When I was […]

Til Luchau: Hello, Til Luchau here, very excited to be with my colleague, Whitney Lowe, in our first episode of The Thinking Practitioner podcast. Hey, Whitney, how are you doing? Whitney Lowe: I’m doing very well, how are you doing today? Til Luchau: Excellent. Like I said, I’m excited. We’re going to take some time […]

I saw a recent social media post where educators were complaining about the use of PowerPoint in the classroom. PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, or whatever presentation tool you prefer is usually not the problem. The problem is that computer software has made creating a presentation quite easy. Creating a great presentation is much more difficult. Developing […]

Assessment is a significant focus for educators. Yet, the vast majority of massage therapy educators have not had any formalized training in educational theory to adequately understand both the role of assessment and the different types of assessment activities built into a curriculum. Two words that you may hear often discussed around assessment are formative and summative assessment. A […]

In the mid-1950s, Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues devised an organizational system for categorizing levels of learning and cognitive complexity. This system has been used extensively in curriculum development for all grade levels and in higher education. It has also more recently been modified and updated. The updated Bloom’s taxonomy model is precious for organizing […]

Ankle sprains are the most commonly occurring lower extremity soft-tissue injury. An estimated 85% of all ankle injuries involve ligament sprains. Of the various ligaments around the ankle, the majority of injuries occur to the ligaments on the lateral side of the ankle, primarily the anterior talofibular. When injuries are severe, they may also include […]

For a long time the print textbook has ruled the classroom as the primary supplemental resource for study to support the instructor. That reign is waning as digital resources are now commonly used to supplement classroom instruction. There are people on both sides of the fence about whether digital resources are better or worse than […]

Don’t rely on that highlighter! One of the most common study strategies is to re-read content (either from our notes or from printed text materials) and highlight relevant passages. The purpose is to go back later on and re-read those highlighted passages with the intention of planting them in our memory. This activity is a learning […]