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New APTA-Supported CPG Looks at Best Ways to Improve Walking Speed, Distance for Individuals After Stroke, Brain Injury, and Incomplete SCI

Jan 7, 2020/Review

Aerobic walking training and virtual reality treadmill training are the interventions most strongly tied to improvements.

PTJ: New CPG Supported by APTA Provides Guidance on PT Treatment of Individuals With Heart Failure

Feb 5, 2020/Review

Nine evidence-based action statements for the evaluation and management of patients with heart failure and two algorithms for clinical decision making.

Getting a Handle on the Fee Schedule, Part 2: 4 Things to Know About the KX Modifier, MIPS, Dry Needling, and Revocation

Nov 26, 2019/News

Beyond the proposed payment cuts for 2021: four things that you should know about the 2020 physician fee schedule rule from CMS.

Study: Among Individuals Who Qualify for Medicare Due to Disability, Opioid Overdose Deaths Nearly 5 Times Higher Than Total US Rate

Dec 9, 2019/Review

Subgroups of Medicare beneficiaries "present different risk profiles for opioid overdose death, authors say.

Foundation Grants Focus on ICU Survivors, Exercise Effects on Diabetes, Blood Flow Restriction, and More

Dec 17, 2019/News

An APTA-sponsored $40,000 Health Services Research Pipeline grant will support a project aimed at conducting the first-ever comprehensive evaluation of variability in rehabilitation delivery to older intensive care unit (ICU) survivors. The award was among several Foundation for Physical Therapy Research

Veteran and Emerging Physical Therapy Leaders Speak Out

Dec 2, 2019/News

What's the difference between an emerging physical therapy leader and a well-established one? Not much—at least when it comes to love for their work and their vision of the profession’s future. (Apologies if you were expecting a punchline.) For its December issue, PT in Motion magazine posed an identical

Technology's Brave New World of Ethical Challenges Explored in PT in Motion Magazine

Nov 6, 2019/News

That latest piece of technology you're thinking about weaving into your practice? Maybe it should come with a warning label. This month, PT in Motion magazine takes a look at the ethical issues that new technologies can introduce in physical therapist practice. From seemingly offhand social media posts

2020 Physician Fee Schedule Calculator Now Available

Dec 27, 2019/News

APTA's members-only Medicare physician fee schedule calculator for 2020 is live.

Updated Guideline for Management of Hand, Hip, Knee OA Strongly Recommends Exercise-Based Approaches

Feb 11, 2020/News

In this review: 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee (Arthritis Care & Research, February, 2020) The Message Although researchers were not able to recommend precisely what kind and how much, exercise interventions

Payment Win: CMS Reverses Most of Its Damaging Coding Edits, More Details to Come

Jan 24, 2020/News

APTA and its members engaged in extensive advocacy efforts to convince CMS to rethink its decision.