October 2010

Features

• Model Behaviors In Women's Health

  Observations and advice from PTs with a knack for the niche.

• The Long Run

  While the lifespan of patients with chronic health conditions is increasing, those patients also are requiring more health care support. How are physical therapists meeting the challenge?

• 20 Emerging Leaders Recognized

  The award identifies and honors one physical therapist (PT) or physical therapist assistant (PTA) from each component who has demonstrated extraordinary service early in his or her physical therapy career.

Columns and Departments

• Compliance Matters: Make It a Policy

  The keys to creating a comprehensive policy and procedure manual.

• Ethics in Practice: Compassionate Considerations

  The complexities of serving patients who have undergone torture.

• PTAs Today: A Vote for Participation

  The importance of hearing and being heard.

• This Is Why: Saddled Up

  More than a career, the ride of a lifetime.

• PT Resource

  - Business Sense
  - Data Points
  - Health Care Headlines
  - Patient Perspective
  - Practice Partner
  - Research Roundup
  - The Funny Bone

• Viewpoints

  - PTs Should Share and Promote Fitness, Wellness Knowledge
  - Haiti Volunteers: Be Realistic and Well-prepared