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Feb 1, 2026/Article
Beginning in 2026, APTA is launching a new strategic framework, focused on the pillars of advancing payment, empowering members, and evolving practice. Learn how this will chart the profession's future course, what it means for you, and how you can get involved. When APTA began planning its new Strategic
Oct 19, 2021/Open Access
"By getting involved in local organizations and schools, we have a chance to promote our profession and establish meaningful connections."
Oct 1, 2016/Feature
All across the nation, consumers have "some form" of direct access to physical therapist services. What does that mean? What work remains?
Feb 28, 2018/News
APTA recently voiced its concerns over the ways the health insurer characterizes physical therapy, its imprecise terminology, and its continued noncoverage of aquatic physical therapy and group physical therapy.
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
Dec 9, 2020/News
ALEC has reauthorized a resolution that backs unrestricted direct access to physical therapy as important to "free-market health care."
Jun 22, 2017/News
"We change time. We routinely turn over the hourglass."
APTA is committed to gathering information and resources about COVID-19 and Long COVID to help clinicians provide optimal care.
Jun 28, 2023/News
Along with APTA Private Practice, the associations have a plan for reform that could dramatically alter the Medicare payment landscape.
Jan 12, 2021/Resource
Start your students on a path toward better financial security and a more rewarding career in physical therapy with these financial solution tools, resources, and information.