Listening Time — 28:38

Join Editor-in-Chief Steven George, PT, PhD, FAPTA, as he talks with Alyson Cavanaugh, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, and Micah Wong, PT, DPT, about their recently published scoping review. The review mapped the current literature on the implementation of primary care physical therapy and found that integrating physical therapists in primary care may result in reduced healthcare utilization with similar patient outcomes.

Cavanaugh and Wong are co-authors of the article "The Value of Integrating Physical Therapists into Primary Care, Including Patient Outcomes and Health Care Costs: A Scoping Review." Read the article on the PTJ website and follow PTJ on LinkedIn and Bluesky for more research updates.  

Our Speakers

Steven George, PT, PhD, FAPTA, is editor-in-chief of PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal. He is the Laszlo Ormandy Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery and therapeutic area lead in musculoskeletal and surgical sciences at the Duke Clinical Research Institute at Duke University.

Alyson Cavanaugh, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy in the Graduate College of Health Sciences at Hawai'i Pacific University.

Micah Wong, PT, DPT, is a graduate research assistant in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Iowa.