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Minding Your Business: Top Business Leadership Skills in Physical Therapy

Aug 21, 2019/Perspective

To transform society, I needed to know more about business. 

Essentials for Advancing You and Your Profession

Aug 22, 2019/Perspective

 2 minute read What do you think of when you hear the term advocacy? Do you roll your eyes? Or maybe let out a deep sigh when your professor brings it up? While some people certainly perk up at the concept, there are many of us who associate the term advocacy with some abstract thing we don't need to

2019-2020 APTA Student Assembly Board of Directors Candidates Announced

Aug 22, 2019/News

The candidates for the 2019-2020 APTA Student Assembly Board of Directors have been announced.  These students will serve a one year term where they will work on behalf and represent all student members of APTA, also known as the APTA Student Assembly. As the APTA Student Assembly Board of Directors

Tips to Help You Ace Your Clinicals

Sep 8, 2019/Perspective

Clinical rotations allow students to practice the skills and experience new practice settings.

PTJ: New CPG Supported by APTA Provides Guidance on PT Treatment of Individuals With Heart Failure

Feb 5, 2020/Review

Nine evidence-based action statements for the evaluation and management of patients with heart failure and two algorithms for clinical decision making.

Updated Guideline for Management of Hand, Hip, Knee OA Strongly Recommends Exercise-Based Approaches

Feb 11, 2020/News

In this review: 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee (Arthritis Care & Research, February, 2020) The Message Although researchers were not able to recommend precisely what kind and how much, exercise interventions

Payment Win: CMS Reverses Most of Its Damaging Coding Edits, More Details to Come

Jan 24, 2020/News

APTA and its members engaged in extensive advocacy efforts to convince CMS to rethink its decision.

Coronavirus Reports: What We Know, and What We Don't

Mar 3, 2020/Roundup

A roundup of what was being reported by public health and infectious disease experts at the time.

Study: Home Health Physical Therapy Improves Abilities of Individuals With Dementia

Jan 28, 2020/Review

No physical therapy was linked to a 60% probability of ADL improvement; probability rose to 75% for patients receiving any physical therapy.

CMS Issues COVID-19 Guidance on Infection Control, Protective Equipment

Mar 11, 2020/Roundup

Guidance for HHAs, SNFs, hospices, and more.