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Aug 18, 2025/News
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy, or ESWT, is emerging as a noninvasive treatment option in physical therapy. ESWT utilizes sound waves to relieve pain and aid healing. It's important for physical therapists to understand the different forms of ESWT, such as focused and radial shockwave therapies, as
Use these resources to help your students expand their understanding of acute care in physical therapy.
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Jan 1, 2018/Website
The Foundation is the only national nonprofit solely dedicated to funding physical therapy research and promising researchers.
May 4, 2022/Podcast
Explore lesser-known APTA advocacy with President Roger Herr.
Aug 26, 2025/Podcast
Listening Time — 23:02 Listen on Apple Listen on Castbox Listen on Spotify In this episode of the PTJ Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Steven George, PT, PhD, FAPTA, talks with Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley, PT, PhD, FAPTA, about winning the 2025 Jules M. Rothstein Golden Pen Award for Scientific Writing.
Physical therapy saves money and achieves results that help patients get and stay healthy. But too often, insurance requires copays that effectively reduce access. This must change.
The ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. reflects the unintended consequences of an effort to control pain by masking it. We're paying a terrible price.
Jan 29, 2014/Test & Measure
Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) - Down Syndrome (DS)
Aug 9, 2017/Test & Measure
Used as a predictive tool to estimate the need for bone mineral density scans.
