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The Vocational Interest Test Got It Right

Apr 1, 2022/Column

Actions both small and heroic as a "yellow jacket" in an NYU summer program prompted a career in physical therapy.

There's No Place Like Home: Reducing Hospital Readmission Rates

Nov 1, 2015/Feature

PTs are playing an important role in reducing patient readmissions to hospitals. They could play an even a bigger one. Learn how.

Student Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

Some APTA chapters and sections have student special interest groups to increase involvement. These groups operate on behalf of their chapter or section; the Student Assembly Board of Directors does not create or manage student special interest groups.

Taking the Road Less Traveled

May 1, 2018/Feature

These PTs have widened their possibilities by narrowing their patient and client base.

APTA-Supported Bill Aims to Eliminate a Medicare Plan of Care Burden

Feb 8, 2024/News

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House would relieve PTs from having to pursue signed plans of care from referring physicians.

Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest) for Parkinson Disease (PD)

Mar 14, 2013/Test & Measure

For patients with Parkinson disease (PD)

Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Jun 13, 2013/Test & Measure

A 16-item self-report measure in which patients rate their balance confidence in performing several activities.

Single-Leg Stance

Oct 22, 2014/Test & Measure

Single-Leg Stance

Dynamic Gait Index for Parkinson Disease

Jun 2, 2014/Test & Measure

Assesses an individual's ability to modify balance while walking in the presence of external demands

Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire-CRQ

Jun 20, 2013/Test & Measure

Used to measure physical and emotional aspects of chronic respiratory disease.