How RCS-1 Will Impact Travel Therapists In a galaxy far far away, eggheads strapped to the cubicles of the CMS death star have created a new and menacing weapon to unleash upon the innocent therapists across our great land. They have named it: RCS-1 Similar to R2-D2 or C-3PO, RCS-1 is cold, robotic, and...
Stress Management for Travel Therapists
Stress Management for Travel Therapists As I write this post my wife is franticly scrambling around the house making final arrangements for our trip this weekend out west to run the Antelope Canyon 55K. Not only do we have to get ourselves to the airport in time to make our flight from Cincinnati...
The Perfect Traveler Rig
The Perfect Traveler Rig: Our ideal set-up for a traveling adventure lifestyle Imagine waking up along the Pacific coastline with morning light flickering off the water onto your sleeping bag. Or pulling off to the side of a remote Canadian highway late at night only to find yourself comfortably asleep 5 minutes later to...
3 Steps to Starting Travel Therapy in 3 Months
3 Steps to Starting Travel Therapy in 3 Months Abruptly bouncing into travel physical therapy is not necessarily the best strategy for success during your first contract, but then again not every situation can be ideally planned out. A surprising number of travelers have had to tackle this tasks in an abbreviated time frame. ...
6 Steps to Start Travel PT in 6 Months
6 Steps to Start Travel PT in 6 Months When we first were contemplating making a monumental career move by plunging into the travel physical therapy world, we felt totally and utterly overwhelmed. As I am sure many of you pondering the same transition are. So many moving pieces. So many options. So many...
Tackling Tough Contracts
Tackling Tough Contracts 3 Simple tips to always make the most out of a tough contract *Disclaimer – If a facility is truly doing something illegal or unethical please by all means follow the proper procedures and report them. This post is meant for the jobs that are simply less than ideal but not...
So They Say You Can’t Travel With Kids…
So They Say You Can’t Travel With Kids… The finer points of being pregnant while traveling. Who else has heard the phrase, “you’re so lucky you can do this before you have kids”, or “take advantage of it now while you can”, or other such phrases insinuating that traveling (and life) is over once...
Zombies and Baby Farts
Zombies and Baby Farts – Our Battle with the 4 Month Sleep Regression 4 months and 10 days! We had 4 months and 10 days of (relatively) restful sleep before our little angel baby decided to go demonic on us on a nightly basis! Sure, Kinley had always been dealing with night waking (waking...
Advice to a novice (or experienced) travel therapist hoping to be successful
Advice to a novice (or experienced) travel therapist hoping to be successful When Ellen and I bailed out of our first permanent jobs as physical therapists we had no idea where it would take us. We left behind friends, steady jobs, and even one clinic ownership offer. Fortunately we landed in some unbelievable locations...
Christmas as Travelers
Christmas as Travelers Christmas time brings nostalgia to all of us. Fond memories of Christmas Eve’s spent anxiously awaiting Santa. Tearing through wrapping paper, rabid for the next toy or ugly sweater neatly tucked into a flimsy cardboard box. We all have our favorites. El and I have ours too. Our First Christmas Our...