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Sep 1, 2019/Open Access
Use these resources to understand professionalism and support your ongoing development.
Apr 12, 2021/Review
A global study links significant percentages of dementia, depression, cancer, and stroke to insufficient PA.
Feb 14, 2024/Video
Acknowledging current actions of APTA and proposed opportunities for more fully engaging with the global rehabilitation community.
Aug 29, 2025/Resource
Ambient scribe tools refer to systems that operate discreetly in the background and use artificial intelligence to automatically capture, transcribe, and summarize patient-provider interactions into structured clinical notes. As these scribes becomes more prevalent in health care, PTs and PTAs using
Jun 26, 2019/News
The influence of PTJ (Physical Therapy), APTA's scientific journal, continues to grow: according to Journal Citation Reports (JCR), the frequency with which PTJ is cited in other journals—its "impact factor"—made PTJ #7 among rehabilitation journals and #16 among orthopedic journals in 2018. A journal's
Nov 1, 2016/Feature
For rock musicians, the songs may remain the same, but each gig brings the potential for new injuries.
Feb 1, 2015/Column
Social media can be great for public relations, but they also present conundrums.
Dec 22, 2020/News
A COVID relief bill came up short, leaving the profession and other provider groups facing less severe but still "unsustainable" reductions.
Dec 20, 2018/News
Nearly a year after being signed into law, a proposed rule to include PTAs as authorized providers under TRICARE has been issued by the US Department of Defense.