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Apr 19, 2024/Roundup
Five articles explore the feasibility of telerehabilitation and the factors that could lead to successful implementation.
Feb 3, 2022/Podcast
The future of health care professional education is moving from a focus on the individual to embrace the health of the larger society.
Jan 1, 2020/Website
The academy’s mission is to foster excellence in acute care practice, in all settings, in order to enhance the health and functioning of patients and clients.
Jun 3, 2020/Author
Alice Bell, PT, DPT, is a senior specialist, health policy and payment at APTA. She is a board-certified clinical specialist in geriatric physical therapy. Before joining APTA in 2017, she was a practicing clinician for 35 years and involved in Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation demonstration
May 1, 2016/Column
A clinical instructor identifies disturbing student behaviors.
Apr 8, 2024/Roundup
Four articles — two from an upcoming PTJ special issue on health disparities — explore minority health issues through a range of lenses.
Anita Bemis-Dougherty, PT, DPT, is vice president of practice at APTA. She has been involved in APTA initiatives including clinical documentation and peer review; fall risk reduction and prevention; scope of practice; PT practice in acute care, the ICU, and the emergency department; revisions to the
Licensure is managed by individual state regulatory boards and is required to practice as a PT or work as a PTA in the United States.
Nov 4, 2019/News
A major win, and a major challenge: that's what APTA and the profession are facing with CMS' release of the 2020 fee schedule.
Nov 21, 2022/Resource
This foundational paper is intended to provide APTA members with information on the current landscape of digital health in physical therapy.