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Employee Incentive: Student Loan Assistance

APTA has partnered with Highway Benefits to help private practice and physical therapy business owners easily offer tax-free educational assistance benefits, including employer student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement. As an APTA member, you'll receive a special discount of $500 off your one-time

Information for Media

APTA's public relations staff respond to media requests and connect reporters with APTA staff and physical therapy spokespersons, as appropriate.

Position on Research

Oct 1, 2025/Policies & Bylaws

House position: APTA supports rigorous scientific inquiry as an essential requisite for developing and advancing the physical therapy profession.

Physical Therapy Documentation Reform

Oct 1, 2013/Policies & Bylaws

House position: APTA shall pursue documentation standards that focus primarily on clinical reasoning and decision making in the provision of physical therapist services.

Deconditioned Dad

Aug 1, 2018/Column

A physical therapist stops exercising and starts empathizing.

FY '25 Payment Increases Slightly Higher for SNFs and IRFs Than Proposed

Sep 25, 2024/Article

Other than small bumps in payment, little changed from CMS' proposed rules for the FY '25 SNF and IRF prospective payment systems.

Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement Measure (STREAM)

Jul 5, 2017/Test & Measure

Provides therapists with a quantitative measurement of motor functioning and basic mobility deficits among patients who had a stroke through the performance of 30 voluntary motor task.

The Good Stuff: Members and the Profession in the Media, October 2022

Oct 19, 2022/Article

This month's collection of members sharing their expertise and insights in the media.

4 PTJ Articles to Grow Your Understanding of Long COVID

Oct 12, 2022/Roundup

In advance of APTA's Oct. 28-29 long COVID live online course, food for thought (and practice).

PT Student Loan Repayment Bill Returns

Jul 26, 2023/News

The legislation would add PTs to the National Health Services Corps and expand the role of PTs in community health centers.