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APTA Media Corps

APTA's Media Corps members serve as a resource for journalists who are working on stories that involve physical therapy.

New Report Confirms Health Outcomes Are Improved When Virtual MSK Care Is Guided by a PT

Jun 5, 2024/Open Access

The independent evaluation supports APTA’s position that digital physical therapy services only be performed or directed by licensed PTs.

Fitness and Health Risk Assessments to Advance Employer Safety and Health Promotion Programs

Sep 23, 2024/Policies & Bylaws

House position: Describes the association's physical therapists conducting entry-point and periodic fitness and health risk assessments for employer safety.

From PT in Motion Magazine: Social Determinants of Health

Jul 3, 2019/News

Health care is one thing. But the context of that care, the constellation of factors that can affect health for individuals and entire communities? That's something else entirely—and physical therapists (PTs), physical therapist assistants (PTAs), and physical therapy education programs are engaged.

APTA Federal Advocacy Forum Brings the Profession's Energy to Capitol Hill

May 14, 2018/News

270 PTs, PTAs, and students from 48 states who converged on Capitol Hill recently to educate legislators and staff about a range of important issues impacting the profession. The meetings took place April 29–May 1, as part of APTA's annual Federal Advocacy Forum in Washington, DC.

The Nuances of Working With Commercial Payers

Mar 1, 2023/Feature

It's about speaking up in the right ways to the right people at the right time.

Ordering of Diagnostic Imaging by Physical Therapists: A 5-Year Retrospective Practice Analysis

Jan 31, 2019/Resource

Researchers focused on 10 PTs who had imaging privileges. The results make a strong case for PTs as appropriate, judicious referrers.

A Deathly Silence

Oct 1, 2016/Column

Should a physical therapist tell a patient that she is terminally ill?

Coding and Billing

Stay up to date on coding and billing in physical therapy.

From PT in Motion Magazine: An Ethical Energy Crisis

May 9, 2017/News

What happens when motivation runs up against professional ethics?