A special addition to our monthly clinical corner recap- Matt and Allie welcome clinic manager Ryan Parnell, PT DPT OCS to discuss the two articles pulled for March. Ryan introduces himself, poses his question to the PT students listening, and walks our listeners through both articles. You'll hear about a clinical trial that was conducted where electrical dry needling was implemented along with manual therapy and exercise for patients with knee osteoarthritis in comparison to patients who only received manual therapy and exercise. In the follow-up article, researchers found that "booster" visits every 4 weeks after completing treatment with electrical dry needling was much more effective in maintaining pain-free function.

Read the articles here: https://journals.lww.com/clinicalpain/fulltext/2018/12000/periosteal_electrical_dry_needling_as_an_adjunct.9.aspx

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09593985.2025.2575837

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy? The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

February is heart month and Matt and Allie are back with this month's clinical corner article discussing aerobic exercise and the benefits for patients with chronic lumbar radicular pain. Follow along as Matt goes over the article, poses his question to PT students listening, and shares the outcomes and findings. You'll hear about five different cases of patients with this chronic issue who had clinically meaningful changes including aerobic exercise to their treatments.

Read the article here: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/josptcases.2025.0171

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy? The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Matt and Allie are back for Season 6's first Clinical Corner! Matt introduces the article that is a revision of an earlier article from 2017 that gives new updated recommendations for treating patients with hip osteoarthritis. Matt poses his question for the student PTs listening and summarizes the article. You'll hear about the guidelines that were shared back in 2017, the gaps that the new researchers found in the literature, and all the current evidence- based guidelines that therapists should be using today. Listen for the top 3 interventions mentioned in the revised strategies for PTs!

Read the article here: https://www.jospt.org/doi/epdf/10.2519/jospt.2025.0504

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy? The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/