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Defining Moment: From PT to Patient

Feb 1, 2025/Column

How becoming the patient changed the clinical perspective of this clinician.

PTJ Author Interview: Algorithm-Based Treatment in the Emergency Department

Mar 18, 2025/Podcast

Editor-in-Chief Steven George, PT, PhD, FAPTA, talks with Amee Seitz, PT, DPT, PhD, and Kyle Strickland, PT, DPT, about their recently published perspective.

Empowering People With ALS

Mar 1, 2021/Column

Physical therapy has an important role in addressing the challenges of a devastating disease.

About PT and PTA Licensure

Licensure is required in order to practice as a PT or work as a PTA in the United States. Licensure is managed by individual state regulatory boards.

APTA Practice Advisory: Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy

Aug 15, 2025/Resource

Extracorporeal shockwave therapy, or ESWT, is a noninvasive treatment that utilizes sound waves to reduce pain and promote tissue healing, although its exact therapeutic mechanism remains unclear.

Not 'Small Adults'

Nov 1, 2018/Feature

Here's what PTs need to know about pediatric overuse injuries.

Great Expectations

May 1, 2016/Column

Remember, you can’t spell "realistic" without "real."

Movement System Diagnosis

May 22, 2024/Resource

APTA Board of Directors adopted a set of criteria to be used by any stakeholder groups developing diagnostic systems/labels as it applies to movement system diagnosis.

VA/DOD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Stroke Rehabilitation, V. 5.0

May 1, 2024/CPG

This updated guideline is intended to assist health care providers in all aspects of stroke rehabilitation (eg, assessment, treatment, follow-up).