November 2009

Features

• Women's Health: It's More Than You May Realize

  When it comes to women's health, physical therapists offer a broad and expanding range of services.

• Evidence-based Practice: Integrating Research In the Clinic

  How well are clinicians and researchers progressing toward achieving that goal? Interviews with physical therapists clearly show the integration of evidence is occurring.

• Health Care Technology Today

  Here's a look at some advances and proposals in the field of health care.

• Transform Your Physical Therapy Practice with the Right Words

  To succeed as a physical therapy practice, you must set yourself apart. Without the right marketing, most of your potential patients never will hear about you. And in the age of consumerism, everyone is bombarded daily with thousands of marketing messages from many different forms of media.

Columns and Departments

• Compliance Matters: Raising Red Flags

  A primer on new regulations regarding identity theft prevention.

• Ethics in Practice: New and Improved

  Updated ethics documents for PTs and PTAs.

• PTAs Today: The History Makers

  Celebrating 40 years of PTAs. Part two of four.

• This Is Why: Women's Liberation

  Empowering patients and herself.

• PT Resource

  - Business Sense
  - Data Points
  - Focus on the Feds
  - Health Care Headlines
  - Meeting the Challenge
  - On The Web
  - Practice Partner
  - Research Roundup
  - The Funny Bone

• Viewpoints

  - APTA: Working Hard For You
  - CPT vs. DPT: Does the Public Know the Difference?