There we go.
Dun, dun, dun.
All right, we are doing it live.
I'm wearing a ridiculous Valentine's Day
theme.
You are very easy to spot in the
crowd.
That's why people are like,
that's a great red jacket.
I'm like, it's Valentine's Day.
Jake Irwin, live on the show.
Appreciate you walking by.
We made eye contact,
and we were talking about talking anyway,
so we'll just go with it.
Jake, what's your superhero backstory?
When someone says here at CSM,
who are you, what do you do,
where do you fit in the profession?
So I'm a full-time professor at Georgia
State University.
Nice.
In addition to working at my teaching job,
I spend ten hours a week working with
all the sports teams on campus.
I'm the only physical therapist employed
by the athletics department.
And how long have you been there?
I've been there since twenty-twelve,
but I've been with athletics since
twenty-twenty-three.
Good for you.
But I also own a small private practice,
so I get a lot of hats.
When do you do others?
I'm also a delegate to APTA.
For Georgia?
yeah well good i love that so you're
all over i'm also on the bylaws and
house documents committee for apt well
someone's got to write bylaws i got a
little bit everything going glad it's not
me uh so let's go with uh excited
and expectations since we started csm all
of twelve minutes ago yeah i can't ask
you what you've seen so far but what
are you what are you looking forward to
what are you seeking out here
So that's a great question.
I actually am looking for a specific
answer to a specific patient problem.
I've got an athlete who's presenting with
a neurologic problem that nobody can seem
to figure out.
And I'm not really a neuro PT.
So I'm going to go to some of
the neuro sessions and see if anybody has
answers for me.
Come to where the neuro PTs are.
Exactly.
Let's go to where the experts are and
see if someone's got an answer.
I heard that great advice long ago.
I think this is my tenth CSM?
Ninth?
I mean,
you start losing count after five or six.
And someone said,
really great advice is if you're an ortho
PT,
make sure you go to at least one
or two things that are not in your
lane.
Hearing the same or similar things fifty
times is great,
but hearing different things might make
you go, huh.
Yeah,
the only time I go to things that
I know about,
I'm actually just sort of interested in
how they're presenting it.
As somebody who teaches this material,
I like to see how other people present
the same concept.
Yeah, delivery device.
See if there's something else that I can
do differently.
I don't really take notes on the content.
It's more on the delivery.
Yeah.
There will be many screenshots of slides
that will die in your photo app that
you'll never,
because they're out of context in a week.
You're like, oh yeah,
that was that cool slide in the moment.
It felt so impactful,
but you have no idea where it is.
No idea why I even took a picture
of it.
Yeah.
Yeah, that definitely happens.
So, Pat,
looking backwards to CSMs in the past.
Yes.
When someone comes away with this,
and there's a lot of PTs here.
We'll find the final number at the end
of the day.
People question all the time,
why do you come?
I've said the CEU ratio is not the
reason to come.
It's a part of a reason.
But what do you come to CSM for?
Flying from Georgia,
it's not a short trip, man.
I've been coming to CSM since I was
a first-year PT student.
I love CSM.
Honestly,
it's really more for the networking.
When I was a student and a new
grad, it was the material.
Give it to me from the experts who
are on the cutting edge of it.
Instead of reading the article,
listen to the guy who wrote it or
the lady who wrote it.
That was huge early on.
And then I had a gap when I
was starting my private practice.
I couldn't afford to just take a bunch
of time off to come here.
Probably busy, too.
Yep.
But now that I'm teaching,
I get some money from the school to
be able to come.
I come every year and it's really a
ton of networking.
I get to see a lot of people
that I only get to see once a
year at CSM.
And so I just love the time I
spend with those people.
I get to catch up with, you know,
I went to school at Southern Cal.
So I get to like see some of
the people I went to school with.
It's the only time I really get a
chance to do that.
That's great.
yeah it's an awesome experience words of
wisdom if someone is walking in here
because people are like it's pretty cool
to watch you got people like yourself you
got people like i was hanging out with
stanley paris yesterday who's like i don't
even know how many decades of csm's i've
been here been here since before it's been
csm uh when someone's walking in here with
fresh eyes you see it every third or
fourth person here is someone walking with
fresh eyes what do you wish we'll play
that whole what do you wish you knew
uh what do you know now that you
wish you knew then any words of advice
for someone
So the exhibit hall, have a plan.
Like it's way too big to wander around
and try to find what you're looking for.
Have a plan,
know where you're trying to get to.
That's how I got here.
I looked you up.
I said, oh, it's booth twelve forty four.
I'm going right there.
And for the rest of it,
it's also have a plan.
But pick two or three things for every
hour,
for every time frame that there's an
event,
because you're going to go into one and
like listen to it for a little bit
and be like, no,
it's not what I wanted.
But pick one that's close by.
Like geographically nearby.
So you're not missing half of it.
You could walk around for forty five
minutes and not see anything.
So have two or three events for every
time frame that there's scheduled
programming.
And pick things that are near each other
so that if you don't like something,
you can immediately just walk out and go
next door.
Right.
It's not too late because these things
were quick.
I dumped a bunch of screenshots from the
programming into AI.
And then I was like, hey,
I'm looking for this and this and this.
Help me figure that out.
And it was like, oh,
here's three suggestions.
None of the titles were anything that I
would have normally been like, oh,
that that could find that.
But sometimes you got to go deeper than
the headline.
Yeah, no, that's really smart.
I've not thought to do it that way.
I still search it by category.
By next year,
it'll just have AI embedded in it.
And you'll just say,
I'm looking to become this.
It'll be great.
Got your suggestions.
Simple, simple, but not easy.
All right, let's do a parting shot.
Every episode has a...
This is the parting shot.
One last mic drop moment.
No pressure.
Just your legacy on the line.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we started Parting Shot.
I'll give you the inside scoop.
I'll give you one.
Because I was interviewing people as a
student, and I was like,
I don't know how to – Will Humphrey
is walking by.
I don't know how to end these interviews
because they just keep saying smart stuff.
So I had to come up with a
thing where I was like,
it's called the Parting Shot,
which means like, hey,
say something great.
Time to go, though.
All right.
So wrap it up with something good.
Yeah.
When your patient doesn't get better
because they didn't follow their home
exercise program, that's not their fault.
That's your fault.
Yeah.
Re-evaluate what you did.
If you blame the patient for not getting
better,
you've missed an opportunity to learn.
It's lazy.
Plus it's lazy.
And let's say they are the most,
we'll say it in this hypothetical,
that is the most horrible patient in the
world.
Sure.
You still should change your game.
Yep.
You've got to learn from it.
You have a choice in those situations to
blame them and move on or learn.
Yeah.
All right.
Jake,
where can people find you on LinkedIn?
It's just under your Jake.
Dr. Jake DPT is my title for everything.
Jackpot.
Jake,
appreciate you walking by and jumping on
and taking the leap with us live from
CSM.
We've got more.