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Oct 26, 2022/Policies & Bylaws
HOD P08-22-11-12: States APTA's commitment to promote research, education, practice, and policy for the nonpharmacologic management of blood pressure.
Dec 16, 2021/Test & Measure
The Multi-Directional Reach Test (MDRT) measures balance and the limits of stability in the anterior-posterior and medial-lateral directions by testing how far an individual can voluntarily reach forward, to the right, to the left, and lean backward, while standing with their feet flat on the ground,
Jun 3, 2020/Author
Lois Douthitt is senior director of member communications at APTA, where she contributes to the strategic development and implementation of the association’s overall communications and publications. Before joining APTA in 2000, she was director of publications at the American Gas Association. She is
Feb 5, 2019/Review
You might think that the most effective early postoperative exercise interventions for TKR have been pretty well established by now. You'd be wrong,
Oct 1, 2016/Column
Should a physical therapist tell a patient that she is terminally ill?
Feb 28, 2020/Resource
68-year-old female with long history of type 2 diabetes develops plantar ulcer at the first metatarsal head of the right foot. . .
Nov 12, 2018/Perspective
No matter how hard we think we have it, there are people in our own community who have it much harder.
Dec 1, 2017/News
CMS issued a final rule that includes a scaled back knee and hip joint replacement bundled care model and cancellation of a plan to expand bundled care models to cardiac care and hip and femur fractures.
Mar 1, 2020/Feature
From converting an old clothing store to building a new medical facility, physical therapy is reshaping itself to meet the needs of current and future patients and clients.
Apr 1, 2020/Feature
Stepping out from full-time practice looks different from how it once did. The options during and after a hiatus vary for PTs and PTAs.