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Combatting Muscle Weakness One Patient at a Time

Dec 3, 2018

We know muscle weakness negatively impacts mortality and morbidity. We also know PTs continue to be a vital piece to improving healthcare outcomes in inpatient/outpatient/long term care facilities. Join in to see how muscle strength can significantly impact many different variables related to disease progression, quality of life, etc and how we can use these facts to help our patients realize the important impact weakness can have on health!

linked article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30169116/

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