Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: How to read CPET results
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing shows why a patient can’t exercise: the five variables, their normal values, and what each means.
1 Minute heart rate recovery chart by age
Median 1-minute recovery falls from 20 bpm in your 30s to 11 bpm in your 70s. See the sourced chart by age and sex, and why cutoffs differ.
ICD-10 code S52.001E: Fracture of upper end of right radius, subsequent encounter
ICD-10 code S52.001E is a billable diagnosis code for a fracture of the unspecified upper end of the right radius. It applies to a follow-up visit where the original fracture was open type I or II and the bone is healing on schedule. The code belongs to ICD-10-CM Chapter 19, which covers injury, poisoning, and […]
SOAP progress notes template
Download your free SOAP progress notes template A one-page PDF with patient details and blank Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan fields. It closes with lines for the practitioner’s name and signature. Download template SOAP progress notes record a patient encounter in four fixed sections: Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan. The format is used across mental […]
Eden’s test template
Download your free Eden’s test assessment form A printable form for writing up an Eden’s test assessment in the patient’s notes. Open fields cover patient information, clinical notes, a dedicated military brace test box, recommendations, and practitioner sign-off. Download template Eden’s test is a provocation maneuver used to check whether the costoclavicular space is compressing […]
Deep neck flexor endurance test: Procedure and normative values
Healthy adults average 38.9 seconds (men) and 29.4 (women). Here’s how to run the test, score the hold time, and set the four-week retest.
HCPCS Code G0159: Physical therapist home health billing guide
HCPCS Code G0159 covers a single service. A qualified physical therapist establishes or delivers a physical therapy maintenance program in the home health setting, and each unit is 15 minutes. It is narrower than the general home health PT visit code, and it has no hospice setting at all. Both of those limits are misstated […]
Body composition test: Methods, results, and healthy ranges
A body composition test measures what your weight is made of: Fat mass, lean mass, total body water, and bone mineral density. A scale cannot tell you any of that. Two people can weigh exactly the same and still have very different health profiles. Practitioners use the breakdown to set a baseline, judge metabolic risk, […]
ICD-10 code S43.014D: Right shoulder dislocation, subsequent encounter
S43.014D covers an anterior dislocation of the right humerus once active treatment has ended, so it’s the code for follow-up and PT visits.
ICD-10 code S45.019A: Laceration of axillary artery, unspecified side
S45.019A is the billable ICD-10-CM code for laceration of the axillary artery, unspecified side, initial encounter. Here are the laterality, encounter, and documentation rules for FY2026.