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Mar 29, 2019/News
Sometimes physical therapy doesn't just heal an injury, it changes the course of a patient's life for the better. Colleen Rapp, a press operator for the Denver Post, thought her physically demanding job was exercise enough—until she got a wholistic view of her health status from her physical therapist
Oct 3, 2018/News
October is National Physical Therapy Month (NPTM), an opportunity to amplify and promote the benefits of physical therapy, and to make more people aware of APTA’s #ChoosePT campaign.
Dec 1, 2025/Column
A chance conversation with an old friend opened one PT's eyes to how easily patient trust can be lost.
Aug 1, 2017/Magazine
My Role in a University Sports Medicine Department
Nov 13, 2024/Clinical Summary
OA may be accompanied by pain, immobility, muscle weakness, and a decrease in function and activities of daily living.
Jun 25, 2017/Clinical Summary
CP is a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain.
Apr 27, 2020/News
April 27, 2020: The programs curtailed by CMS require recipients to pay back the funds received.
Oct 18, 2017/News
"The Good Stuff," is an occasional series that highlights recent, mostly local media coverage of physical therapy and APTA members, with an emphasis on good news and stories of how individual PTs and PTAs are transforming health care and society every day.
Jun 30, 2017/News
Physical literacy is as important as literacy in language, music, and mathematics. However, today’s children are becoming less physically literate, which could shorten their lifespan as much as 5 years less than their parents’.
Mar 1, 2022/Statement
Our profession provides essential care. Whatever your setting, whatever your role in our physical therapy community, you are contributing to how we respond to and move through COVID-19.
