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Resources to support you during the pandemic.
APTA is keeping you informed about critical COVID-19-related news and resources to help you meet your patient management, practice, and educational needs.
Learn about management of patients with or recovering from COVID-19, including recommended core outcome measures for children and adults and a wide variety of related topics in the COVID-19 catalog of the APTA Learning Center.
Access additional resources on long COVID and explore best practices for telehealth and infection control.
Recommended Content
Website
Access additional resources related to long COVID and explore best practices for telehealth and infection control.
Resource
On Nov. 4, CMS and OSHA issued federal regulations on COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Review APTA's practice advisory to to understand how this rule might impact your practice.
Report
This follow-up report includes new data based on a March-April, 2021, survey of PTs and PTAs.
Open Access
Cross-academy/section task forces have identified two sets of core outcome measures for patients diagnosed with COVID-19, one for adults and one for children.
Additional Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources for the Physical Therapy Profession Content
Position Paper
This position paper outlines APTA's support of the Expanded Telehealth Access Act that would add PTs and PTAs in private practice, and facility-based outpatient therapy settings as permanent authorized providers of telehealth under the Medicare program.
Roundup
SSRIs and Long COVID, Post-COVID-19 organ abnormalities, lingering symptoms among children, and more.
News
Results of a 2022 survey show that women, Hispanic respondents, and residents of non-metro areas experienced the condition at higher rates.
Roundup
The pandemic's effect on the physical therapy profession, the post-PHE provider landscape, exercise effects on lingering symptoms, and more.
Roundup
What to know about the end of the PHE, risk associations for long COVID, funding for long COVID clinic innovation, and more.
Roundup
PTs, PTAs, and long COVID treatment, long COVID as an episodic condition, post-PHE information from CMS, and more.
Open Access
Access information and guidelines on COVID-19 based on national and international recommendations and guidelines.
Roundup
End to health emergency, annual vaccine schedule, dropping infection rates, and more.
Review
Authors found a dose-response relationship between PA and adverse COVID-19 events that was consistent across multiple subgroups.
Roundup
Physical activity's protective associations against COVID-19 severity, long COVID subtypes, a new variant takes hold, and more.