Entrepreneur Michael Arnolt teamed with an inventor more than 20 years ago to launch an enterprise that has sold thousands of steel therapy instruments and trained thousands of clinicians.
Carmel-based American Specialty Health specializes in connecting patients with chiropractors, acupuncturists, physical therapists and others who treat pain without using pharmaceutical drugs.
The executive director at White River State Park is fighting her way back from a ruptured brain aneurysm, a condition that leaves many of its victims disabled, or worse.
Chris Leeuw opened the doors of the NeuroHope rehab clinic on Feb. 18 to offer patients more time to recover and to help them remain healthy in spite of their immobilizing spinal cord and brain injuries.
Tx:Team has always run its business by sending its therapists to wherever patients are—rather than wooing them into its own facilities. Now, financial pressures from Obamacare and cash-strapped employers are pushing all health care providers to do the same.
Dr. Alexia Torke, an internist, has been named associate director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research. Torke is a researcher at the Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute and a professor at the IU School of Medicine. The Center for Aging Research works with scientists, clinicians, patients and others to develop and test innovative strategies to improve the quality of health care and self-care of older adults. Torke graduated from Carleton College and received a medical degree from the IU School of Medicine.
Mark Anderson has been named director of Franciscan Physician Network’s Joint Replacement Surgeons of Indiana and the Center for Hip and Knee Surgery at Franciscan St. Francis Health. Anderson, who has worked at Franciscan for 16 years, graduated from Indiana University’s physical therapy program in 1997 and earned an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2009.
Independent health care facilities, like Body One Physical Therapy, are seeing referrals from physicians beginning to slacken as more and more doctors become employees of hospitals. The hospitals request that doctors send patients to their in-house physical therapy practices.
Locally based venture capital firms Cardinal Equity Partners and Centerfield Capital Partners have joined with Chicago-based
bank Harris NA to recapitalize the state’s largest independent physical therapy provider.
If you want to see a physical therapist in Indiana, you must first see a physician for a consultation
and referral. It’s the law. Indiana is one of only six states where patients are denied direct
access to physical therapy treatment, and one of only two states where evaluation without referral is
prohibited.
