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Defining Moment | An Ounce of Prevention

Sep 1, 2025/Column

One PT’s longtime passion for helping older adults and preventive health combined into a promising career in falls prevention.

Take Your Vacation — You Earned It! Six Ways to Improve Your Work-Life Balance

Nov 16, 2021/Perspective

Easing the stress of the demands on our profession.

4-Square Step Test (FSST)

Oct 19, 2014/Test & Measure

Test of dynamic balance that clinically assesses the person's ability to step over objects forward, sideways, and backwards.

Why Should Students Support PTPAC?

PTPAC is a mechanism through which the physical therapy profession channels financial and grassroots support to congressional candidates who are responsive to the profession's goals and viewpoints.

Study: PTs in Emergency Departments Reduce Likelihood of ED Revisits for Falls

Aug 31, 2018/Review

Consult by a PT in the ED reduced the odds of a fall-related revisit within 30 days by 35% and within 60 days by 32%.

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in Adults

Jan 10, 2014/Clinical Summary

PTs provide a wide range of rehabilitation services and play a key role in educating and training patients, caregivers, and families in strategies to improve quality of life and prevent medical complications.

Congress Is Back in Town: 5 Things to Watch on Capitol Hill in September

Sep 2, 2025/News

In July, APTA and other provider groups secured a 2.5% funding increase from Congress to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for 2026. While this was a positive development, it is a short-term fix. For the Medicare payment system to stabilize and compensate providers fairly, major and urgent reforms

Cerebellar Dysfunction Clinical Summary

Dec 9, 2021/Clinical Summary

Pediatric Balance Scale for Down Syndrome (DS)

Jul 1, 2003/Test & Measure

Measures balance for people with Down Syndrome.

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in Children and Adolescents

Jan 29, 2017/Clinical Summary

PTs play an active role in the rehabilitation and habilitation of children with SCI.