Dr. Mark Shepherd

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• Why Isn’t Everyone Using Stepped Care for Musculoskeletal Injuries? 

  By: Chad E. Cook PT, PhD, FAPTA Resource efficiency models  Musculoskeletal (MSK) outcomes have shown some concerning trends over the last decade. Conditions like low…

• Three Ways That Recruitment in Randomized Controlled Trials May Not Reflect Real Life

  By: Chad Cook, Amy McDevitt, Derek Clewley, Bryan O’Halloran As we wind up a year of recruitment on the SS-MECH trial [1], we are compelled…

• Pros and Cons of Paying Peer Reviewers

  By: Juliana Ancalmo, Chad E Cook PT, PhD, FAPTA, Ciara Roche Background Critical appraisal is a hallmark of peer reviewed publishing. Critical appraisal provides analytical…

• Yes, Peer Review is Broken, but It’s Probably Worse than You Think

  By: Chad E. Cook PT, PhD, FAPTA We have problems: There are countless publications, editorials, and blogs indicating we have a notable problem with the…

• On Mastery

  By: Seth Peterson, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT “I don’t know how they can sleep at night.” I was getting chewed out in a hallway in…

• An Exercise in Interpreting Clinical Results

  By: Chad E Cook PT, PhD, FAPTA Randomized Controlled Trials In clinical research, treatment efficacy (the extent to which a specific intervention, such as a…