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APTA CSM Hot Topics From Every Section and Academy

Check out the hot topics identified by each section and academy.

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APTA Acute Care

  • Preconference session: Expand Your Expertise in Acute Care Practice and Teaching
  • Preconference session: Implementing Value-Based Health Care in Acute Care Physical Therapy
  • Keep It Simple — Management of the Complex Patient in the Emergency Department.
  • Driving Value in Acute Care: Creating a Culture Focused on Value.
  • Getting to Yes: Establishing Nursing Partnership for Interdisciplinary Hospital Mobility, Facilitated Discussion and Breakout Session.
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APTA Aquatics

  • Shoulder Rehabilitation: Integrating Aquatic Therapeutic Applications, Maximizing Your Plan of Care.
  • Innovative Aquatic Therapy Techniques for Your Neurological Patients. 
  • Jump Into the Deep End: Building an Aquatic Program for Patients With Developmental Neuromuscular Conditions.
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APTA Cardiovascular and Pulmonary

  • Peripartum Cardiovascular Health Disparities and How Physical Therapists Play a Vital Role Across Settings.
  • One Step, or Pedal, at a Time: New Guidelines for Exercise Prescription in Autonomic Dysfunction.
  • Potential Role of Blood Flow Restriction Training in Patients With Sarcopenia.
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APTA Clinical Electro & Wound Management

  • Preconference session: Biophysical Agents & Energies in a DPT Curriculum: Labs and Lectures
  • Differential Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Pain, Paresthesia, and Weakness in the Upper Extremity.
  • Clinical Utility of Ultrasound Imaging in Lower Extremity Pathology.
  • On the Rise: Soft Tissue Infection Associated With People Who Inject Drugs.
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APTA Academy of Education

  • Preconference session: Practical Teaching and Learning Strategies for Clinical Reasoning: Building Your Toolbox
  • Preconference session: The Novice Director of Clinical Education/Site Coordinator of Clinical Education for a Doctoring Profession
  • Promoting Innovation Opportunities With the 2024 CAPTE Standards.
  • Navigating Leadership in the Academy From a Minority Perspective: Innovative Strategies for Increasing Black Representation.
  • Past the Breaking Point? Student Financial Strain During Physical Therapy Education.
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APTA Federal

  • Preconference session: Implementation of Integrated Primary Care Physical Therapy Models: A Workshop
  • Preconference session: Point-of Care Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: An Introduction and Hands-on Course
  • Preconference session: Observational Gait Analysis Workshop
  • Clinical Reasoning: Where Do We Begin? Are We Teaching Best Practices?
  • Primary Care Physical Therapy: A Proven Model of Care Within the Veterans Heath Administration.
  • The Relationship Between Sleep and Body Composition/Musculoskeletal Health.
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APTA Geriatrics

  • Preconference session: All Rise! Evidence-Based Floor Transfer Training Is Now in Session
  • The 5 Ms of Geriatrics: The Missing Link in Movement System Framework.
  • 2024 Carole B. Lewis Lecture.
  • A Call for Physical Therapy Action on Hearing Loss, Balance Problems, and Fall Risk.
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APTA Hand and Upper Extremity

  • Glenohumeral Joint Arthritis: Physical Therapy Management, Surgical Decision Making and Techniques, and PostOperative Rehab Considerations.
  • Upper Extremity Peripheral Nerve Injuries: Anatomical Review, Examination, and Intervention Techniques.
  • Don't Move an Inch: Graded Motor Imagery for Hand Pain, Surgery, and Immobilization.
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APTA Home Health

  • Current and Hot Topics in Home Health.
  • Help, I Need Ideas! 'Hiding' PT Interventions for Fall Prevention Guidelines in Fun Activities.
  • Don't Be Afraid: Safe and Effective Intervention for the Medically Complex Home Health Patient.
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APTA Leadership & Innovation

  • Preconference session: Ignite Your Teams to Achieve Your Dreams
  • Preconference session: LAMP Leadership 101: Personal Leadership Development – the Catalyst for Leading Within
  • Preconference session: LAMP Leadership 201: Advanced Leadership Concepts – the Catalyst for Leading Others
  • Payment and Policy Updates: What Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants Need to Know.
  • Lamp Leadership 'TED Style' Talks — Shared Lessons on Leading Within and Leading Others.
  • The Rehabilitative Policy Maker: A Seat at the Table.
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Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy

  • Preconference session: Optimal Intensity: You Had Me at High-Level
  • Taking the Next Step in Dysautonomia Management: Advancing PT Practice and Overcoming Clinical Challenges.
  • Beyond the Clinic Walls: Promoting Health and Wellness Across Populations at Risk for Falls.
  • It's a Wrap: Remarkable Role of Myelin Plasticity in Motor Learning and Rehabilitation.
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APTA Oncology

  • I'm Too Young for Cancer: Addressing the Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer.
  • Creating an Impairment-Driven Comprehensive Oncology Rehabilitation Program Using Data and Outcome Measures.
  • Brain Tumor Rehab Made Ridiculously Simple.
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Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy

  • Preconference session: Navigating Innovations in Your Residency/Fellowship Program: Excellence in Teaching, Curriculum, Mentoring, and Outcomes
  • Achilles Tendon Rupture and Tendinopathy: Considerations for the Athlete.
  • Exercise to Manage Chronic Pain: Translating Evidence to Individualized Exercise Programs.
  • From Rehabilitation to Recreation: Physical Activity to Support Living and Aging With Chronic Health Conditions.
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APTA Pediatrics

  • Preconference session: Anticipatory Postural Control: Translating the Evidence Into Clinical Practice
  • When Reflux Comes up, Everything Is Affected.
  • Giving Hypermobile Children a Leg Up on Lower Extremity Function: Physical Therapist Assessment and Treatment.
  • Fostering Fundamental Motor Skills Development in Children of All Abilities to Promote Lifelong Physical Activity.
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APTA Pelvic Health

  • Preconference session: Crash Course on Sexual Medicine for the Physical Therapist
  • Keeping Kegels in the Mix: Evidence and Nuance.
  • Equity Is Not Equality: Our Role in Protecting the Birth Experience They Want.
  • Oh Baby! Debunking Perinatal Myths to Better Inform Clinical Practice.
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APTA Private Practice

  • Preconference session: Kick-Starting Your Private Practice: A Day of Interactive Consulting
  • From Basement to Big Time: Start, Build, and Grow a Physical Therapy Practice.
  • Multiple Revenue Streams Rather Than Multiple Clinics: Scaling Smarter Not Harder.
  • Fighting Existential Threats to the PT Profession Through Entrepreneurship.
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APTA Academy of Research

  • Preconference session: Path to Publication for Physical Therapists: Research Design, Data Management, and Dissemination
  • Preconference session: Writing Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Grant Proposals
  • AI, Oh My! How ChatGPT Can Rehab Your Workflow and Research Outcomes.
  • Leveraging Health Informatics in Quality Improvement, Research, and Education for 21st Century Physical Therapists.
  • Eugene Michels Research Forum: Precision Physical Therapy — Are We Ready to Embrace Genetics and Biomarkers in Rehabilitation?
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American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy

  • The Tangled Web We Treat: Navigating Complex Relationships Between Brain and Muscle After ACL Injury.
  • Putting the Brakes On: Testing, Tracking, and Training Deceleration in Sport.
  • Treating Peripheral Nerve Injuries in Overhead Athletes: Don't Be Nerve-ous.
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