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Professional Pulse

May 1, 2019/Magazine

We've compiled highlights of stories published by PT in Motion News for a recap of reports on the physical therapy profession.

2025 Maley Lecturer: Movement Is 'Our Professional Lens'

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

The Good Stuff: Members and the Profession in the Media, September 2021

Sep 15, 2021/Roundup

Members on everything from massage guns to milk crates--our roundup of media coverage that includes PTs, PTAs, and students.

NEXT 2017: The Rothstein Roundtable

Jul 7, 2017/Podcast

Listen to a discussion interview held at NEXT 2017 in Boston with Anthony Delitto, PT, PhD, FAPTA on the Rothstein Roundtable and its topic “Does Physical Therapy Need an Industrial Revolution?”

Discovering Your Professional Interests

Mar 31, 2020/Podcast

In this episode, physical therapist Rick Segal guides listeners as to how they can discover their career interests, what to do once they narrow down their options, and further insight on how to advance within our field and move our profession forward.

Circling Back and Moving Ahead – Defining Moment

Nov 18, 2019/Podcast

Rachel Tavel, PT, DPT, discusses how her travel writer’s journey led her to a career in physical therapy.

6-Minute Walk Test (6MWT) for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Aug 12, 2013/Test & Measure

People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – stage 1 (mild), stage 2 (moderate), stage 3 (severe), stage 4 (very severe)(1)

APTA, AOTA, Other Groups Ask Congress for Intervention on PTA Differential

Aug 4, 2021/News

A recent letter to House and Senate leaders says it's the wrong system at the wrong time.

Public Health and Population Care

The physical therapy profession is invested in individualized, patient-centered care, but that investment has broad societal and public health implications.

Study: Home Health Physical Therapy Decreases Opioid Use After THA, TKA

Mar 31, 2021/Review

Researchers found that both physical and occupational therapy led to quicker discontinuation of opioids.