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Feb 25, 2026/Resource
Extracorporeal shockwave therapy, or ESWT, is a noninvasive treatment that utilizes sound waves to reduce pain and promote tissue healing, although its exact therapeutic mechanism remains unclear.
Aug 1, 2019/Column
APTA and its chapters offer a variety of member resources to promote advocacy for appropriate payment of physical therapist services.
Apr 25, 2023/Review
Authors of a study published in PTJ also found significant variation in therapy time among acute care facilities.
Sep 19, 2022/Review
A systematic review involving more than 200,000 patients with a variety of conditions revealed consistently positive results for telerehab.
Mar 10, 2025/News
Providers and patients are urged to call Congress on the proposed spending package before March 14 deadline.
Sep 15, 2026/Podcast
Listening Time — 16:16 Podcast Platforms Icons In 2015, France implemented a major reform of physical therapist education by extending programs from three years to five years and by revising the curriculum to embed evidence-based practice in clinical training. Listen as Associate Editor Jason Beneciuk,
Jul 27, 2021/Podcast
n a descriptive study that’s already been featured in 14 news stories, Mark Werneke, PT, and colleagues analyzed data on more than 222,000 patients in the Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes database. Werneke and Jette talk in depth about the relatively low use of telerehabilitation in the outpatient population
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.
The programs listed provide only postprofessional doctoral (i.e., PhD, ScD) graduate educational and research opportunities for PTs. The degrees offered are housed in institutions that either have PT degree programs or are associated with a PT degree program.
Nov 30, 2017/Test & Measure
The six questions on the inpatient short forms were selected from questions in the original AM-PAC.
