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Oct 21, 2020/APTA Live
Learn how you can take action, and why it matters. With PTA Caucus Delegate, Jodi Pfeiffer, chats with Kara Gainer, APTA director of regulatory affairs, and Justin Elliot, APTA vice president of government affairs.
Jun 1, 2018/Column
Initiatives are ongoing to improve access to physical therapist services.
Jul 5, 2022/News
In an advocacy win, APTA-supported recommendations aimed at increasing veterans' access to PTs and PTAs are now part of a spending bill.
APTA's Residency and Fellowship Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service (RF-PTCAS) offers a centralized and simplified process for physical therapists applying for residency and clinical fellowships.
Feb 1, 2016/Feature
There's growing evidence that adding a "p" to rehabilitation improves patient outcomes pre- and postsurgery and following cancer treatments-and saves money, too.
Dec 1, 2019/Feature
Newly named Catherine Worthingham Fellows of the American Physical Therapy Association and APTA emerging leaders discuss the physical therapy profession's past, present, and future-and share advice.
Physical therapy is increasingly acknowledged as a key component in hospice and palliative care.
Oct 20, 2021/News
Bishop will help to oversee APTA's government affairs, health policy and payment, and public relations departments.
Jun 3, 2018/Perspective
Health care and medical care aren't the same thing, and we aren't going to treat our way out of poor health using our old ways of thinking and doing.
Oct 28, 2018/Article
In our profession, the word "trauma" typically leads us to think of a catastrophic injury, emergency medical care, and comprehensive rehabilitation services. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), however, trauma also includes "events or circumstances experienced