Therapists in rewarding permanent jobs and travel therapist jobs nationwide stay current on the latest news, and that means knowing where their healthcare employers stand. Each year, U.S. News & World Report publishes a list of America’s best hospitals. Once again, Travel Force Staffing is delighted to see our affiliates in the Top 10 and hope that—if you’re not already working in one of these top rated facilities—you’re inspired by them.

It’s motivating to view this year’s list and explore the finer details of each facility. Upon clicking on rehabilitation hospitals and exploring the links, therapists will notice that US News rates rehab hospitals as Very Strong, Strong, Significant and Modest; statistical information on staff, number of beds, inpatient and outpatient services, patient and family support services, community outreach programs and more are included in the overview.

The Top 10 Rehab Hospitals in America: A Therapist’s Palm Card

Four of these rehab hospitals also place in the Top 10 for other important specialties; these are listed along with the name of the facility. Note that these facilities are named in order of their US News Top 10 ranking.

• #1: Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation
• #2: University of Washington Medical Center is ranked #1 for helping patients with cancer.
• #3: TIRR Memorial Hermann
• #4: Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital is ranked #1 in Psychiatry.
• #5: Mayo Clinic is #1 in the country in three specialties: Diabetes & Endocrinology, Gastroentrology, and Gynecology.
• #6: Craig Hospital
• #7: Rusk Institute NYU Langone Medical Center is also in the top 10 rankings for Rheumatology and Orthopedics.
• #8: Moss Rehab
• #9: Shepherd Center

Apply for a Therapy Job at the Head of the Class!

Our therapists have a keen interest in landing the best therapy jobs; that’s why it’s important to offer therapy career resources that prepare them for challenging cases and procedures—the very thing the specialists surveyed by US News look for when they nominate best hospitals. Call 1-800-617-0608 or apply online today for VIP customer care and job placement by our experienced recruiting team. More than the possibility of making “The Honor Roll” awaits you—you’ll have job security, high pay, full benefits and a recession proof career ladder to climb! Apply now!

Travel Therapists will want to obtain multiple state licenses, so that when new travel physical therapy jobs open up from coast to coast, you’re ready to accept immediately. As an incentive, our staffing agency provides, whenever applicable, reimbursement for licensure board costs and travel expenses. Call 1-800-617-0608 or apply online to open up a line of communication with our recruiting team; they’ll want to discuss how far you can take your therapy career and what you need to do to get the ball rolling.

Whether you’re comfortable in your current therapy job or planning your next move, bookmarking our therapy career resources page is a great idea; it’ll help you stay current on allied health trends, events, and matters concerning your continuing education and earning potential.

Therapy Career Links Worth Remembering

OTA’s, physical and occupational therapists, as well as speech language pathologists will want to familiarize themselves with these sites, useful for anyone in therapy jobs and physical therapy jobs at Travel Force Staffing.

• Physical Therapy Boards
• Occupational Therapy Associations
• Speech Language Pathology Associations

Once again, don’t pass on making the New Year your perfect excuse to check in with your state licensure board. You’ll want to ensure no complaints have been filed, and no expiration have passed on continuing education requirements; a failure to meet these standards or forget to pay small periodic fees could result in the revocation of your state board issued therapy license—and nobody wants that. It’s just a gentle reminder from your #1 staffing agency. We know you’re in control of your therapy career and ready to prosper this year. Happy 2012 everyone!

PT, OT and Other Therapy Jobs Jingle in the Lover’s State and Enchanting New Mexico!

What PT or occupational therapist could resist New Mexico this time of year, where throughout December it’s a festival of light; with candlelit walkways lighting up the desert sand, storefronts and cafes can’t help but entice shoppers to drop in for a Mexican hot chocolate. Starting a therapy job in time to catch the December-long “Albuquerque River of Lights” is a surefire way to illuminate the New Year with great possibilities! Much further east, featured therapy jobs in Falls Church, VA will delight Christmas lovers everywhere, especially during New Year’s Eve, as events like “Watch Night” unfold near the historic crossroads of Broad and Washington streets.

Why Physical and Occupational Therapists Will Love Holiday Shopping in California

On the West Coast, holiday events appeal to everyone from revelers to wine and pet lovers. From now through January, Palm Springs California, where OTs pull in a competitive occupational therapist salary, is host to some of the finest winter wine tastings in the state. Further north, the city of Hayward is decked out with the annual “Light up the Season” display, and so close to San Francisco that therapists looking to adopt a furry friend might check out “Macy’s Holiday Windows”. Throughout the holiday season and until New Year’s Day, the San Francisco SPCA is hosting *Meet Your Match*, via Macy’s window shopping; click the Macy’s link to view the video! It behooves us to remind everyone that, in our therapy jobs, we welcome Travelers’ pets!

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We hope we’ve motivated you to apply online or call 1-800-617-0608 for excellent therapist career opportunities, bound to light up your life. Don’t delay, as we are—for a limited time—giving the iPad2 to therapists who complete physical therapy or occupational therapy jobs with us. So give us a ring…or a jingle. Happy holidays!

Find Occupational Therapist Careers all over the nation!

Whether its sun-loving jobs in Florida or the colorful seasons of ‘up north,’ we place OT professionals in big cities, small towns, and rural healthcare settings nationwide.

Want to see Alaska?

Sometimes the best therapy jobs are where you least expect to find them - take Alaska, for instance. The pay in Anchorage is superb and city dwellers friendly and unique. Though winters are cold and quiet - ideal for knocking back a novel or two - blooms in spring leave you speechless and daylight for months on end redefines day-to-day living. Talk to a Travel Force recruiter about therapy jobs in the Land of the Midnight Sun!

Did you know? Forbes ranked occupational therapy number 10 for best-paying jobs for women

Learn more about Careers in Occupational Therapy and the expected growth in this field

Related links:

• occupational therapist schools
• answers to frequently asked questions about therapist jobs

Call 800-617-0608 to learn more or apply online to get started with Travel Force.

In settings ranging from hospitals, schools and nursing homes animal assisted therapy seems to enhance recovery from illness, change behavior for the better and improve the patient’s experience with the rehab team. Animal assisted therapy has been used on patients with decreased immune function, Alzheimer’s, recovery from breast cancer, lung transplants, hypertension, heart disease and more. Interested occupational therapists can look to organizations like the Delta Society to learn more about the health benefits that come with animal companionship.

A patient receives animal assisted therapy in the form of a dog’s kiss following orthopedic surgery.

Man’s Best Friend Helps Occupational Therapists Who Work with Children

Some occupational therapists use dogs as a modality to help children achieve independent functioning in the areas of self-help, play and learning. Because these animals promote a sense of fun, and create a more relaxed environment, children are likely to interact with the animal, and improve in everyday activities like dressing, grooming and feeding—fun tasks the patient may practice with the therapy dog under supervision of an OT. The kinds of young patients said to benefit most from animal assisted therapy are those with special needs, like autism and sensory processing disorder.

In addition to dogs, animal assisted therapy is making headway using horses as well. Occupational therapists with an interest in all things equestrian will be happy to note that The Horses and Humans Research Foundation has awarded generous research grants to OT programs in occupational therapy schools that use horse movement (Hippotherapy) in studies that benefit children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Travel Force Staffing Stays On Top of The Latest Trends, Featuring OT Jobs in Top Hospitals

Occupational therapists who work with us have their pick of top paying jobs in all 50 U.S. states, the majority of them with enacted autism insurance reform; this law not only enables patients with autism to seek more progressive therapies, but provides affordability and increased access to all medical providers. In addition to great therapy career resources offered by a top staffing agency, OTs can also rely on literature like ADVANCE for Occupational Therapy Practitioners to educate them on alternative trends in allied healthcare; the biweekly magazine has lots to say about dolphin assisted therapy helping facilitate communication, socialization, fine and gross motor skills among patients with autism.

Stay abreast of all groundbreaking news in allied healthcare and work in high paying occupational therapy jobs in America’s best hospitals. Call 1-800-617-0608—or apply online. Come join your peers in therapy jobs that broaden the smiles of mankind and pets alike.

The first week of November is National Allied Health Professionals Week, and honors the contributions of therapists from coast to coast. To physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech language pathologists in the U.S., therapist staffing agency, Travel Force Staffing, says ‘Thank you, for the skill and high training you bring to your therapy jobs in all 50 states!’

Your healthcare staffing agency provides therapy career resources that help allied health professionals keep up with the extraordinary job gains predicted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, who, in 2006, predicted 4 million new health care jobs that are still on a steady climb—and forecasted to keep on growing until 2016!

Travel Therapy Jobs Are Just One Way to Increase Allied Health Awareness

For patients in need of rehabilitative care, there can be no greater contribution than sharing your talents as a therapist in a wide variety of healthcare settings that travel therapy jobs provide. Remember that allied healthcare professionals and the travel therapists among them constitute approximately 60% of caregivers in American healthcare today—so make sure you get the word out about your large and invaluable presence in the medical community! Since travel therapists encounter many different people with an interest in what they do, be sure to sponsor an activity, like a pot-luck, sports game or raffle that generates proceeds and honors local therapists.

Helping Give Talented SLPs, PTs and OTs Their Due

Working in a therapy career, though challenging, means your chosen road is high paying, incredibly rewarding and recession proof! Bookmark our physical therapy certification page to learn more about advancing your PT career.

Are you an ambitious occupational therapist looking to make your mark? Read this related blog about your therapy career’s boundless opportunities and high wages. We may also be the perfect fit for a newly graduated speech language pathologist, hunting for a lucrative CFY job—or ultimate speech language pathology job.

What Are You Waiting For? Call Travel Force Staffing Now!

Because we are affiliated with America’s best hospitals and offer free private housing and bonuses as part of a generous benefits package, all our rehab jobs put physical therapists within reach of a six-figure salary. It’s as easy as calling 1-800-617-0608; or, simply apply online! But between clicks, take the time to bask in your achievements this week, as a valued member of America’s allied healthcare workforce!

Pennsylvania physical therapy jobs are within range—some might say “robotic arm” range—of amazing research being conducted with Electrocorticography, or . In a project lead by a University of Pittsburgh neurobiologist, researchers taught a monkey how to use a robotic arm to mentally feed itself marshmallows; then they tested the technology on a quadriplegic human patient at the UPMC’s Rehabilitation Institute.

He hadn’t moved his limbs since sustaining a C-4 spinal cord injury in a motorcycle crash; interested physical therapists and others in allied healthcare can read about this patient’s mental feats with ECoG in the Pennsylvania paper, the Post Gazette. To summarize, the patient, 30 year-old Tim Hemmes, underwent surgery, so that an electronic grid could be placed against his brain without penetration. He then participated in a 28-day series of tests, the celebrated outcome of which proved that people with long-term paralysis can still produce brain signals and move their arms and legs.

To the patient and rehab team’s delight, the electrodes shallowly implanted in Mr. Hemmes’ brain read signals from neurons that captured arm motion, allowing him to exchange, with the robotic arm, an emotionally charged high-five with his doctor, and touch his girlfriend’s hand for the first time in 7 years.

“I believe they found the cure to paralysis,” Mr. Hemmes remarked in the interview video below that shows what groundbreaking rehab jobs can do with technology on their side. Mr. Hemmes doctors aren’t ready to proclaim a cure just yet, but they are comfortable with having identified a way to restore function in people with disabilities.

Fast Moving Therapy Careers Get a Jump Start with Travel Force Staffing

The researchers behind this medical robotics phenomenon have received over $6 million in funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Defense’s “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency”, known as DARPA. It just goes to show that professionals in rehab jobs are well funded for good reasons. Physical Therapists looking for a jump start in their allied healthcare careers are strongly encouraged to align their talents with the right employer today.

And that’s us.

We work with America’s best rehabilitation hospitals, 80% of whom appear consistently in U.S. News & World Report. Call or apply online for a recession proof career in the country’s most prestigious rehab hospitals where working with mind blowing, life saving technologies is just another day of business as usual. Click on our benefits package and therapy career resource links to see six-figure earning potential in all 50 U.S. states. Always reach for the very best career solutions!

Travel Force Staffing provides recruitment solutions for America’s top rated rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient and Rehab centers, skilled nursing facilities, and private therapy practices located in all 50 U.S. states. Our experienced team of staffing experts place physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, surgical technologists and per diem staff and other allied healthcare professionals into therapy careers nationwide. Contact us today at 800-617-0608 for instant access to cutting edge recruitment technology, therapy career resources, news, and information.

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From college and professional athletes to kid’s sports injuries, baby boomers and seniors staying fit, the demand for sports therapists is off the chain.

How close are you to jobs in Sports Therapy?

The number one ‘Best Thing!’ about having a Masters in Physical Therapy is after years of late night studying, tests, clinicals and boards, you finally get to practice. The number two best thing is your Masters paves the way for your doctorate - or maybe first a career in sport physical therapy.

Every time you see an NFL quarterback sacked or a college ‘b-baller’ hit the floor hard, somewhere a sports therapist secretly says: “Yes, more work for me!” Naturally you sense exaggeration here as we all know compassion is vital to the art. Nevertheless facts are facts. Whenever an athlete gets hurt playing sports; a physical therapist likely plays a role in healing.

“Jobs in sports physical therapy are challenging and rewarding,” said Dennis Grandic, PT, MBA, Business Account Manager for Physical therapy staffing agency Travel Force Staffing. “They’re ideal positions for PT graduates in search of job satisfaction, career stability, and great pay.”

Sports Physical Therapy Jobs Working with Children

About 38 million teens play organized sports in the U.S. each year. Of these, an average 3.5 million get hurt - sprains, strains, head, spine, neck and back - plenty of jobs in sports therapy here.

Think football leads the pack in promoting adolescent sports injuries? Guess again. Bicycling is number one with 275,000 yearly mishaps. Basketball follows second with 200,000 and football third with 194,000. Injuries on the trampoline, playing soccer and skateboarding rank four, five and six respectively.[1]

Sport Therapists for Adults

Fueling demand for sports physical therapy are millions of ‘just retired’ Americans exercising regularly. Alongside them are seniors living longer and being more active while doing it. This beckons the story of 105-year-old Isabel “Billie” Smith in Margate Florida who said the only reason she gave up swimming at the age of 99 was because of a hip injury. “I do miss it though,” she said.

The centurion maintains mobility through exercise classes with a licensed sports therapist.

What’s the Jobs Outlook for Sports Physical Therapy?

Sport therapy is expected to grow more than 27 percent through to 2018. Salaries are high and range around the $80,000 mark. The average yearly salary in 2009 was $74,000 and sports therapists working for professional sports teams commonly earned well over $100,000.

Physical Therapy Jobs on the Rise in the Wake of Recession

The demand for physical therapy jobs is increasing sharply. Factors include an aging population, shorter hospital stays, the shift to ambulatory care and an improvement in the survival rate of accident victims and newborns. Indirectly, the rise in life expectancy makes interventions in physical therapy even more relevant, since physical therapists improve the quality of life of the elderly for an increasing proportion of their life.

Want to learn more about careers in physical therapy, sport therapy or other allied health jobs? Looking for a permanent position, a travel therapy job or to practice in a skilled nursing facility or outpatient rehabilitation center? Call Travel Force at 800-617-0608 or apply online today!

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National Physical Therapy Month - sports injury prevention throughout our lifespan.

[1] National SAFE KIDs campaign.

October holds something special for physical therapists and physical therapy assistants across America. The leaves are changing, there’s a nip in the air and the APTA is buzzing with news of National Physical Therapy Month. This year’s theme is sports injury prevention throughout our lifespan, and serves to remind everyone that, as we age, staying fit and healthy is perhaps the most important benefit physical therapy offers.

Physical Therapists Heal Patients, Physical Therapy Career Facts

• Physical Therapists reduce athletes’ risk of injury by 41% because of specially developed exercise regimes.
• Physical Therapists help 88% of patients return to normal activity, increase their range of motion, and relieve pain.
• Physical Therapists treat patients with a wide range of diseases, including Lupus.
• Physical Therapists provide an alternative to painful and expensive surgery.
• Physical Therapists manage or eliminate pain without medication and its side effects.

Join One of America’s Fastest Rising Careers!

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the demand for physical therapy jobs will increase by 27% between now and 2016—a positive statistic that kicks off Fall and lets physical therapists and physical therapy assistants ride a wave of momentum into the new year. October will be over before you know it, but Travel Force generous benefits package , like free private housing and bonuses, just to mention a few, are a constant 365 days a year. Apply online or call 1-800-617-0608 for rewarding permanent and travel therapist jobs in all 50 U.S. States!

Excited by the Momentum Brought on by National Physical Therapy Month?

As more of the U.S. population benefits from your PT skills, resources like the APTA and other trusted physical therapy career resources will continue to offer you the latest news on the most lucrative job searches, interviewing tips and continuing education. We keep members of our team up to date on state-by-state licensure laws, PT specialties and the hottest technologies offered in healthcare today. We encourage you to explore our blog for physical therapy career news and more. Spread the word about this important month for you, your colleagues and the patients who benefit. Happy October everyone!

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