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"What's in a Name?" Revisited

AL Behrman, PT, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Florida, and Research Investigator, VA Brain Rehabilitation Research Center Malcom Randall VAMC, Gainesville, Fla
P Plummer-D'Amato, PhD, Bphysio (Hons), is Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles Department of Neurology, Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif

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As a clinician and an author, I have often observed colleagues labor over the choice of one word in a sentence or title of a manuscript. They weigh the options and consider the meaning of each word at length. I remember a conversation between the late Florence Kendall and our rehabilitation staff in which she described the effort that she took in carefully selecting each word in her classic text Muscle Function. Florence really did know every word in the text—and understood the value of each of those words in effectively communicating an idea to the reader and clinician.

In his editorials, Jules Rothstein, PT, PhD, FAPTA, PTJ Editor in Chief Emeritus, cautioned us time and again about our selection of words to describe physical therapist practice. In particular, he noted the inadequacy and overuse of such (non)descriptors as function.¹ A prolific writer and editor, Jules understood that, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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