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About APTA Magazine

APTA Magazine is an award-winning publication providing industry-leading information and insight to APTA's 100,000 members, including physical therapy students, PTs, and PTAs.

Advancing Equal Pay and Pay Transparency

The gender wage gap in health care is a persistent issue with women earning less than men across various health care professions, even after accounting for factors like education and experience. While the gap has narrowed in some areas, it remains significant and contributes to lower lifetime earnings

Using Motor Learning to Help Patients

Feb 1, 2018/Article

PTs who are passionate about using motor learning explain why it's so important to physical therapist practice.

The New Frontier

Dec 1, 2017/Feature

How is technology altering physical therapist practice? APTA's new FiRST Council provides some insight.

The Perils of Self-Deception

Feb 1, 2018/Article

Literal bad timing gives a PT a choice.

Preventing Reinjury in Surgical Patients

Dec 1, 2017/Column

Here's how PTs can best avoid potential problems and reduce litigation risks.

Viewpoints

Nov 1, 2017/Magazine

Ask Questions. Remember Wellness.

Spare No Expanse

Oct 1, 2017/Column

Looking beyond the clinic for wellness-client options.

CSM 2017 Coverage

May 1, 2017/Feature

We Imagined. We Discovered. We Grew. In her introductory remarks to the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties ceremony for newly certified clinical specialists, the traditional opener to the Combined Sections Meeting (CSM), APTA President Sharon Dunn, PT, PhD, announced that CSM 2017 would be

Teaching the Brain To Battle Degenerative Diseases

Jun 1, 2016/Feature

Individuals with neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson disease and multiple sclerosis need guided exercise. Physical therapists are leading efforts to keep them optimally mobile and healthy for as long as possible.