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Aug 1, 2022/Column
A ride home from a high school dance launched a life-long romance — and physical therapy career.
Feb 6, 2024/Clinical Summary
PTs play a vital role as part of a multidisciplinary team to care for persons with ALS across the spectrum of the condition.
Apr 16, 2026/Clinical Summary
Patients receive medical and pharmacological treatment as the primary intervention, and physical rehabilitation to address musculoskeletal weakness and neurologic dysfunction.
Aug 25, 2025/News
For the second year in a row, the John H.P. Maley Lecture was all about the movement system. Nancy Bloom, PT, DPT, MSOT, gave the 2025 lecture with the goal of educating the audience about the progress and challenges surrounding movement and diagnosis, as well as encouraging PTs to embrace their role
Mar 31, 2026/Article
With March Madness in full swing, PTs and PTAs everywhere might be wondering: What is it really like to work with NCAA basketball athletes? For Chad Taylor, PT, DPT, ATC, certified strength and conditioning specialist, a full-time faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, the answer
May 5, 2021/Article
As with other documentation of PT services, you must show the need for the care you provide and equipment you recommend.
Mar 4, 2022/Roundup
For National Brain Injury Awareness Month, five APTA resources and a roundup of recent research.
Feb 27, 2023/Perspective
For me, remembering the "why" of becoming a PT is the privilege we have of entering another's experience.
Nov 13, 2025/Review
In this review: Factors related to reversal of prediabetes in patients from a cardiovascular risk program during 2019- 2023 (BMC Research, open access). The Message In this study, patients with prediabetes — defined as elevated glycemia levels not meeting diagnostic criteria for diabetes — enrolled in
Nov 30, 2017/Test & Measure
This test is used to obtain information with regard to centralization or peripheralization of pain or other symptom behavior as a response to testing in specific directions or mechanical loading.
