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Follow the Leaders

Oct 1, 2017/Feature

APTA annually honors Emerging Leaders-PTs and PTAs who are making outstanding contributions to the field of physical therapy early in their careers. Here's what some of them have been doing.

Patient Care

APTA has patient care resources to help you in your daily practice —including content and tools previously housed at PTNow.

APTA Advocacy Update, March 2025: Fee Schedule Reform, PTA Supervision Win, and State-Level Successes

Mar 26, 2025/Podcast

Listen on Apple Listen on Castbox Listen on Spotify In this episode, we check in on both state and federal advocacy efforts to prioritize patients' access to physical therapy and support PTs and PTAs throughout their careers. We look back on key wins from 2024, while also looking ahead to what the rest

Study Bolsters the Case for SMART Act

Sep 7, 2022/News

Policy research cosponsored by APTA reveals potential savings through eased PTA and OTA supervision requirements.

The Good Stuff: Members and the Profession in Local News, July 2017

Jul 19, 2017/News

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.

The Fix Was On

Aug 1, 2019/Column

A career was shaped by the desire to make things better.

Supervision Under Medicare

Learn how to stay in compliance with Medicare while providing supervision to students, PTAs, and physical therapy aides.

Study: Knee OA Treatment That Doesn't Follow Guidelines Comes at a Price

Feb 23, 2017/Review

Too many physicians are prescribing interventions that are not supported by evidence and may even carry extra risk.

CDC Issues 'Call to Action' to Address Treatment Gaps for Children Experiencing TBI

Feb 27, 2018/News

The CDC sees TBI in children as a public health problem with a ripple effect—not only are children receiving inconsistent care at the time of injury, but variation in rehabilitation and recovery approaches can lead to disability that lasts through adulthood.

Study: PTs, Family Physicians Similar in Knowledge of LBP Management

Dec 10, 2018/Review

When it comes to management of low back pain, PTs know just as much—and sometimes more—than the family practice physicians who often are sought for primary care.