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2019 ELI Fellows Graduate From What's Now a National Award-Winning Program

Jul 17, 2019/News

The 18 seasoned physical therapy educators who have honed their knowledge and skills over the past year through the APTA Education Leadership Institute (ELI) Fellowship program know they've been a part of something special. Apparently, the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) agrees—it named

Gregory Hicks Appointed to APTA’s Board of Directors

Jul 31, 2019/News

Gregory Hicks, PT, PhD, FAPTA, has been appointed by the APTA Board of Directors (Board) to complete the leadership term of Sheila K. Nicholson, PT, DPT, MBA, MA, following her death in June this year. Hicks, who has been an APTA member for 17 years, is chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at

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.

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.

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.

Study: Home Health Physical Therapy Improves Abilities of Individuals With Dementia

Jan 28, 2020/Review

No physical therapy was linked to a 60% probability of ADL improvement; probability rose to 75% for patients receiving any physical therapy.

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

APTA's Physical Therapy Outcomes Registry Again Receives QCDR Designation for MIPS Reporting, Adds New Measures

Jan 21, 2020/News

APTA's Physical Therapy Outcomes Registry has been approved for the fourth year in a row by CMS as a qualified clinical data registry.