Skip to main content

Search

Clear
Filter by Type
Filter by Topics
Filter by Symptoms & Conditions
Filter by Year
Promoting Sleep: Not a Leap

Oct 1, 2018/Feature

When PTs snooze on broaching the subject of sleep health, patients and clients lose.

Let's Make a Difference Together—It's Not Too Late

May 21, 2019/Perspective

It started at APTA's Annual Conference in Boston in 2005. I was walking back to the hotel with my colleague and fellow PTA Kerry Williams. We had a late dinner and decided to stop at a fast food restaurant for ice cream. That's when I saw a mother and her two kids, a brother and sister ages maybe 9 and

A Call to Action: Joe Godges Says PTs Need to Expand Their Approach to MSK Pain

Aug 12, 2022/Interview

The next APTA Lecture Series event looks at how patients' mental impairments can affect thoughts on pain — and what PTs can do.

A Struggle I Would Not Change

Dec 2, 2019/Perspective

We had a life that we were settled into, struggles and all. Now, I wanted to change things.

A Healthy Perspective

Mar 1, 2017/Column

Helping clients take a longer view.

TRICARE: The US Military's Health Care Program

Dec 1, 2016/Column

A look at 2 issues: Are PTAs reimbursable? Also, regions will consolidate.

Ordering of Diagnostic Imaging by PTs: A Practice Analysis - PTJ

Aug 9, 2019/Podcast

As more PTs transition into direct access roles, it seems prudent to consider how additional resources common to other first-contact providers might impact patient care.

Guidelines: Commitment of Students and Clinicians to Patients, Clients, Society, and the Profession

Aug 20, 2020/Policies & Bylaws

House guideline: APTA supports students, PTs, and PTAs expressing their commitment to patients, clients, society, and the profession with an oath or pledge.

Putting Advocacy To Work at Federal Advocacy Forum

Feb 2, 2020/Perspective

Even with all of that uncertainty I wanted to go and experience #PTAdvocacy in action and learn where I fit in to all of it.

President's Budget Proposes Cuts to Public Health Programs, Health Research, Medicare, and Medicaid

Mar 19, 2019/News

Although characterized by supporters as an approach that "embodies fiscal responsibility," the 2020 federal budget proposal from the Trump administration is facing criticism that the $4.1 trillion plan cuts too deeply into health care and education. Many of the proposed changes run counter to current