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APTA Financial Solutions Center Faculty Toolkit

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.

Serving Patients With Limited English Proficiency

Individuals with LEP can include those with sensory impairments, who are Deaf or hard of hearing and communicate using ASL, have speech impairments, or who are blind or have visual impairments.

Social Responsibility Finds a Home in the House

Feb 1, 2020/Feature

The APTA House of Delegates increasingly is taking stances on societal matters. But members of the policymaking body still are getting comfortable with when to do so.

Actors With Disabilities and the PTs Who Treat Them

Mar 1, 2020/Feature

More and more actors with disabilities are appearing in TV shows and movies. Physical therapists are playing a supporting role.

The Power of Predictive Analytics

Feb 1, 2020/Feature

How patient data can answer questions to help PTs provide better care, improve outcomes, and lower costs.

Institutionalizing Inventiveness

Mar 1, 2020/Feature

A growing number of schools that offer DPT and pre-physical therapy programs are exposing their students to strategies for inventing and innovating, from concept to production and marketing. And the programs' goals reach well beyond the invention itself.

Good to Be Home

Feb 1, 2020/Feature

Physical therapists working in home health discuss their evolving role in the continuum of patient care.

Professional Pulse

Dec 1, 2019/Magazine

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Combined Clinical and Home Rehabilitation: Case Report of an Integrated Knowledge-to-Action Study in a Dutch Rehabilitation Stroke Unit

Mar 31, 2015/Knowledge Translation and Implementation Special Series

Background and Purpose

There is growing awareness that the poor

Daily Exercises and Education for Preventing Low Back Pain in Children: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Mar 31, 2015/Research Reports

Background

Children report low back pain (LBP) as young as 8

Cross-Sectional Study to Examine Evidence-Based Practice Skills and Behaviors of Physical Therapy Graduates: Is There a Knowledge-to-Practice Gap?

Mar 31, 2015/Knowledge Translation and Implementation Special Series

Background

Curricula changes in physical therapist education

Intermanual Transfer Effect in Young Children After Training in a Complex Skill: Mechanistic, Pseudorandomized, Pretest-Posttest Study

Apr 30, 2015/Research Reports

Background

Intermanual transfer implies that motor skills learned

Factors Associated With Physical Therapists' Implementation of Physical Activity Interventions in the Netherlands

Mar 31, 2015/Knowledge Translation and Implementation Special Series

Background

Physical therapists play an important role in the

Effect of Taping on Spinal Pain and Disability: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials

Mar 31, 2015/Research Reports

Background

Taping is a widely used therapeutic tool for the

Interrater Reliability of AM-PAC “6-Clicks” Basic Mobility and Daily Activity Short Forms

Apr 30, 2015/Research Reports

Background

The interrater reliability of 2 new inpatient functional

Clinical Characteristics of Patients With Cancer Referred for Outpatient Physical Therapy

Mar 31, 2015/Research Reports

Background

Cancer rehabilitation is a developing area, with

Construct Validity of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure in Participants With Tendon Injury and Dupuytren Disease

Apr 30, 2015/Research Reports

Background

In patient-centered practice, instruments need to