Cash Physical Therapy | for Therapeutic Wealth

I hope this post will be a little bit of inspiration for you to get going on your cash practice. Mine is allowing me to be here and I’m having a great time. I also have a great time when I’m helping people get better in my cash practice.

We started our hiking day with a “lift” on one of the 160 quad chair-ski lifts which took us about half way up the resort.

It was a good deal at about $4 USD. Had we not had that lift our three hour long outing would have been lower and probably produced grumbling from the younger set.

What you’re seeing at left is a few ski runs including one half-mowed ski run. They dont look it but many of them are STEEP!

On our way to the falls we came by an OLD truck that had fresh horse manure by its tail ramp. We guessed there might be a logging horse with its logger nearby. About 1 km down the trail I heard, “giddap”, the rattle of chains, a “gee” and then a “haw”.

Just before reaching the creek we would follow we sighted the husky draft horse pulling three sturdy logs down the steep mountain grade. The logger only used voice commands to control the horse down the steep grade. They were an amazing team. Read all »

I am running my cash practice by remote control while on vacation in Europe. I also am enriching our already full course for physical therapists this will be more of a non-technical post.

While preparing for your cash practice it is important to keep the end in mind. You can do it if you just will get the tools to have the skills to do so! If you want more details please read posts below this one and check out our physical therapy course. If you’d like to share in my day I hope you’re not too hungry!

I am blessed to have family in Europe in a ski town. In my father-in-law’s day you hiked up the hill and got one or two runs down per day if you were lucky. Now the house he lives in can be framed by a skier’s bridge that goes over the road.

The weather has been chilly with snow on the highest mountains. I did little hiking today but enjoyed a birthday celebration for an 11 year old local family member. I most days I skip one or two meals which means I am back down to three instead of four plus “tea time”. Today tea time was augmented by the birthday celebration and I had no extra space after that. My relatives are not exactly thin but they are strong. They walk and hike a lot. They can’t help it. Almost everywhere they go is up or down a hill. Read all »

Read posts below this one and you’ll find a lot more on cash-based physical therapy practices. I’m pretty sure you’ll like what you read here too but don’t expect a highly technical post. This is on the BENEFIT I’m getting from having a cash practice – European travel.

It is 6:37 p.m. and the backs of my hands are still chilly from a 10k hike over the ridge. To warm myself, I’ve had a couple of cups of hot herb tea sweetened by Uncle B’s own honey. I also enjoyed, gingerbread, tvaroch (slightly similar to cottage cheese) pasta and tomatoes since hiking over the mountain back to our families’ house / great grandma and great grandpa’s cabin.

We are here in Ukynice (say UkyNeetSay (fictional)) and hiked from the even more developed ski town of Harrahov.

While hiking up to the ridge with my father in law from Harrahov however I had to strip down to a shirt and t-shirt but coming back down the mountain I pulled one sweatshirt back on.

It is about 5-7 degrees Celsius here and must have been colder up there but due to exertion I really didn’t get cold. We took our time getting out of Harrahov on foot which is a nice town with many glass and other souvenir items for sale. Read all »

“How much does this physical therapy cost?”

That slowed my steps as I rounded one corner of an assisted living center. “How much does this physical therapy cost?” the wheelchair-seated physical therapy-patient asked the therapist who apparently was ahead of her down the next hall.

“Medicare covers it”, the capable physical therapist who still was just around the corner to my right and just out of my sight answered”.

“No one could afford physical therapy if they had to pay for it directly,” he confirmed. I resumed my pace, rounded the corner, smiled, said “Hi Ted (not his real name), and passed the physical therapist. “Ted” did not realize that he’s never going to have patients paying him cash for his services with a belief like that. Worse than that he’s also selling both the patient and himself short.

We all know that when we discontinue care with the elderly, continued progress – regardless of the quality of the home exercise program – is the exception rather than the rule. Read all »

Today was a therapeutic day for me. We PT’s need these. I took a shorter and then a longer hike in the mountains with my family. I also ate very well and still feel good! Our local auntie is a GOOOOD cook.

I don’t know why she doesn’t roll rather than walk by now. I guess it’s because they are always walking up or down a hill from here.

Back home in AZ my associate is doing my cash visits by the way. All PT’s need breaks from our work. We know how to work and also must know how to rest.

My second hike which was with the family started with a lift from teh “vlek” which previously only worked in winter before downhill mountain biking came into popularity.

The “vlek”, or ski lift, did a good job taking us up several vertical meters where we were able to circle the valley and come down the families’ private ski hill behind their house. I have heard the kids use their private tow which is a disk at the end of a spring loaded pole that either goes between the skier’s legs or under their arm. We went by a gurgling spring and by some new condos available but that would only be accessible by snow machine or ski lift in the winter. Read all »

The title question is vitally important for anyone wanting to do a cash practice physical therapy.

If a therapist doesn’t have an answer for “Why should I pay cash for my physical therapy?” and feel good about receiving cash for that therapy, he or she will never receive cash for that physical therapy.

There are many many good reasons and benefits to the patient who agrees to pay cash for PT services at or before the time of service. The benefits have to be those important to the PATIENT though and here are a few and how you might share them with your prospective clients:

1. “You’ll get better faster. Research shows (all the physical therapy course contributors agreed) that patients who invest in their health directly get better faster. This is due to many reasons but really I can do better therapy and you’ll like it better as well”. Read all »

Physical therapists wanting to open and run a cash practice that is truly therapeutic for all involved must answer the question: “Why should I pay you directly for my therapy”?

The author below somewhat answers it for her patient population. In an upcoming post I’ll give a few important reasons. For now enjoy this post. – Lance P. Van Arsdell, PT, MSPT

Why Physical Therapy?
by Patricia C. Winders, PT

The purpose of this article is to answer that very question. Why indeed should you invest your time and money in physical therapy? After all, you are quite right; children with Down syndrome will learn to walk, run and jump. It will take a little longer than it does a typical child, but the goals will be achieved.

Typical children walk at around 12 months of age, and the average child with Down syndrome walks at about 24 months of age. And on top of that, physical therapy is not going to accelerate your child’s rate of gross motor development. Read all »