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Physical Therapy Educator Development

APTA has created and curated educator resources to help you develop professionally and personally and to enhance your efforts to further the profession through PT and PTA education.

Curriculum Resources for Educators

Access resources provided to facilitate academic program curriculum development, review, and enhancement.

Practice Health

Postpandemic life has presented us both challenges and opportunities. Take time to fortify your practice health with education and resources.

Physical Therapist Assistant Centralized Application Services

Effective Aug. 30, 2024, at the conclusion of the 2023-24 application cycle, the Physical Therapist Assistant Centralized Application Service ended. APTA thanks the PTACAS work group — PTA program faculty, admissions committee chairs, and program directors — who helped create application content, set

Residency and Fellowship Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service

APTA's Residency and Fellowship Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service (RF-PTCAS) offers a centralized and simplified process for physical therapists applying for residency and clinical fellowships.

Outcomes Measurement

Outcomes are important in direct management of individual patient care and for the opportunity they provide the profession in collectively comparing care and determining effectiveness.

Elise Latawiec, PT, MPH

Jun 3, 2020/Author

Elise Latawiec, PT, MPH, is lead senior practice management specialist at APTA. Her primary responsibilities include the development of resources related to all areas of practice management as well as the impacts of health care reform. Before joining APTA she was the national director of quality assurance

Lois Douthitt

Jun 3, 2020/Author

Lois Douthitt is senior director of member communications at APTA, where she contributes to the strategic development and implementation of the association’s overall communications and publications. Before joining APTA in 2000, she was director of publications at the American Gas Association. She is

Troy Elliott

Jun 3, 2020/Author

Troy Elliott is program director of strategic messaging at APTA.

Alicia Hosmer

Jun 3, 2020/Author

Alicia Hosmer is the senior director of brand strategy at APTA. Before joining the association in 2018, she was vice president of marketing at Nareit, the leading trade association for real estate investment trusts. In that role she led an organization- and industry-wide rebrand to strengthen the relevance

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Straight-Leg-Raising Test Comparison of Three Instruments

Aug 31, 1983/Research

The purpose of this study was to compare three instruments in the assessment of

Effect of Electrical Stimulation to the Vastus Medialis Muscle in a Patient with Chronically Dislocating Patellae A Case Report

Aug 31, 1983/Practice

Lateral subluxation and dislocation of the patella have been attributed to a number

A Positional Biofeedback Device for Sitting Balance Suggestion from the Field

Aug 31, 1983/Practice

Impaired sitting balance is a frequent complication in the treatment of a patient

Incidence, Recovery, and Management of Serratus Anterior Muscle Palsy after Axillary Node Dissection

Jul 31, 1983/Research

The purposes of this study were to determine the occurrence of serratus anterior

Physical Fitness of Physical Therapy Students

Jul 31, 1983/Research

Physical fitness norms do not exist for physical therapists or physical therapy

Using Isokinetic Dynamometry to Test Ambulatory Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Jul 31, 1983/Research

This study was designed to 1) determine whether isokinetic dynamometry is appropriate

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation in the Management of Nonoperative Intra-abdominal Pain A Case Report

Jul 31, 1983/Practice

Since its first application in the management of both acute and chronic pain, transcutaneous

Reversal of a Sudeck's Atrophy by the Adjunctive Use of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation A Case Report

Jul 31, 1983/Practice

The patient, a 43-year-old man, fell from a ladder on January 19, 1981, sustaining

Effect of a Thermoplastic Orthosis in the Rehabilitation of a Patient with a Scapular Fracture A Case Report

Jul 31, 1983/Practice

The incidence of scapular fractures appears low, based on a review of the literature.1–5

NDT-Certification Notes

Jul 31, 1983/Letters and Responses

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