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It Can Happen Anywhere: Protecting Your Workplace From Public Safety Threats

Feb 1, 2019/Article

The number of violent events in the workplace seems ever more prevalent. How can PTs and PTAs best protect themselves and their patients?

Nutrition: A Portion of PTs' Menu of Services

Sep 1, 2017/Feature

Diet and nutrition are key factors in managing many conditions that PTs treat and are part of PTs' scope of practice. Here are some insights from the growing number of clinicians who offer nutrition-related services.

Making Transformation Possible: Panelists at APTA Event Explore Paths Toward Rethinking Pain Management

Feb 6, 2018/News

Panelists at a recent APTA event believe there are models and concepts out there that provide hope for a future in which multidisciplinary nondrug approaches to pain replace an opioid prescription as the norm in health care.

When Your Race Is a Comorbidity, COVID-19 Sheds Light

Apr 22, 2020/Perspective

There are things we, as individuals and as health care providers, can do to get off the hamster wheel of health disparities.

Guillain-Barré Syndrome

May 22, 2017/Clinical Summary

Patients receive medical and pharmacological treatment as the primary intervention, and physical rehabilitation to address musculoskeletal weakness and neurologic dysfunction.

APTA Advocacy in Action: 2019 Wins, and What's on Our Radar for 2020

Jan 28, 2020/Perspective

APTA is taking the advocacy lead on a number of bills impacting the physical therapy profession and the patients we serve that may be addressed in the 116th Congress.

Physical Therapy for People With Autism

Jul 1, 2018/Feature

PTs explain why their role-nonexistent not so long ago- is vitally important today.

Traumatic Brain Injury in Civilian and Military Populations

Aug 24, 2017/Clinical Summary

Provides background on the various mechanisms, classification, and physical therapy management of individuals with TBI, including those in the military.

Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29)

Jun 16, 2013/Test & Measure

Measures coordination, fatigue, flexibility, muscle performance, muscle tone/spasticity, balance/falls, reach and grasp, self-care, and health and wellness.