Category: Boss Blog

My future daughter in law, Morgan, is a Board Certified Behavioral Analyst. She uses Applied Behavior Analysis to create interventions and plans that result in positive behavioral change. She’s thoughtful, intelligent, and great at her job. Behavioral change is a complex topic, and I have a lot to learn from her. Well before she was certified, though, Morgan was teaching me about my own…

I love reading patient comments. There are so many instances of positive feedback, which affirms that we’re doing what we do with a level of professional excellence that our patients didn’t anticipate. There are occasional comments that discuss areas for improvement (and those should be cherished as well), but overall, the feedback we receive is…

By Eric Boss, PT, MBA I’ve been a Physical Therapist for twenty-five years. My career has evolved into working primarily with data, and I’ve been given the gift of applying my clinical experiences in a different approach to helping improve access and care. Without question, the challenge of how and when to integrate Artificial Intelligence…

Becoming a Physical Therapist (PT) is a long and demanding road. Excelling academically in undergraduate education is crucial for acceptance to PT school. After that, doctoral-level coursework consumes the next three years. Upon graduation, you must successfully complete a rigorous national exam. Following licensure, many PTs choose to pursue additional specialized certifications or residencies to…

In high school, my history teacher quickly figured me out. Within the first two weeks, he “invited” me to sit in the front row. My assigned seat was close enough that a sneeze could scatter his papers. Though I don’t remember much about his western civilization lessons, I do remember the bumper sticker affixed to…

Collabs are not exclusive to Generation Z. Remember when David Bowie teamed up with Queen for “Under Pressure” in 1981? And who can forget Michael Jordan’s iconic partnership with Nike when the first Air Jordan shoe made its debut in 1985? From music to fashion to even food (Taco Bell Dorito Loco, anyone?), America has…

Sometimes you get gifts you want, and sometimes you get gifts you need. During my time at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I had no interest in the topic of pediatrics. However, the cohort of professors at the time were some of the most elite minds in the nation regarding pediatric physical therapy. Notably, Dr.…

When I moved to West Michigan from the south side of Chicago, it seemed like an unwritten rule for locals to share recommendations about must-try pizza places. Out of politeness and a desire to get acquainted with the neighborhood, there was a sense of obligation to venture out and later provide feedback on whether the…

“The Best Jobs of the 2000s”—a title that appeared in virtually every magazine throughout the 1990s. At this time, email was nonexistent, and Google was still a decade away from going public. However, everyone knew PT was the profession of choice in the new millennium. In the early 2000s, information started flowing electronically. By 2010,…

Forty years before Antonio Banderas and Sir Anthony Hopkins teamed up in 1998’s “The Mask of Zorro”, Guy Williams portrayed the masked swordsman in a television series.  I wasn’t alive then, but when I was spending summers with my grandmother, reruns were the gift that kept on giving.  In modern movies, suspense builds as the…

Leadership lessons can often emerge from unexpected sources. Ridley Scott’s Gladiator not only offers cinematic brilliance but encapsulates timeless principles of leadership and unity — values that resonate deeply at Alliance Physical Therapy Partners. In one iconic scene, Russel Crowe’s Maximus, is led into the Colosseum in Rome. He and his companions are slated to…

If we had just walked to the garage and grabbed another ball, we’d still have been able to play– Instead, we had a broken bat and some explaining to do. So many times, in my physical therapy career I observed similar happenings. Watching as physical therapists tried to make do with what they have instead…