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APTA Analysis: The Value of Physical Therapy in Wound Care

Oct 30, 2020/Analysis

PTs and PTAs can play a major role in wound care. This analysis takes a closer look at relevant interventions and practice settings.

Time To Defend the Profession: Add Your Voice in Opposition to Payment Cuts

Aug 11, 2020/News

We're making it easy to do your part to call for action against a proposed 9% Medicare payment cut. Momentum is building.

Membership Eligibility and Application Forms

There are multiple paths to join the APTA community.

Digital Health in Practice

Some of the most exciting advances in physical therapist practice involve emerging digital technologies.

Research Agenda for Physical Therapy From the American Physical Therapy Association

Sep 18, 2023/Open Access

The Research Agenda for Physical Therapy expands on our profession's continued advancement and considers current issues, new innovations, and forward-thinking viewpoints. The research agenda outlines research priorities that are vital to advancing physical therapist practice and the profession. The development

Alice Bell, PT, DPT

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

Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (FLACC) Behavioral Pain Scale

Aug 14, 2017/Test & Measure

A behavioral pain assessment scale used for nonverbal or preverbal patients who are unable to self-report their level of pain.

PTs on Rehab's Leading Edge: Regenerative Medicine, Robotics, and Genomics

Apr 1, 2019/Feature

Physical therapists are playing key roles in innovative rehabilitation technologies.

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.

PTAs, Direct Access, Plans of Care, and More: APTA and Components Press for Changes

Jan 31, 2020/News

Here's how CMS could truly put "patients over paperwork."