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Tools To Advance Your Professionalism

Sep 1, 2019/Open Access

Use these resources to understand professionalism and support your ongoing development.

Meet Promising and Proven Leaders in the Physical Therapy Profession

Nov 1, 2023/Feature

See the 2023 class of Catherine Worthingham Fellows, Emerging Leaders, and Outstanding Students.

Three Years of Physical Therapy in a Public Health Emergency

May 10, 2023/News

APTA member surveys show profession returning to pre-pandemic norms, with some lingering changes.

Outstanding Physical Therapist/Physical Therapist Assistant Team Award

Awards

This award recognizes outstanding clinical practice interaction between physical therapists and physical therapist assistants who are a part of a highly functional PT-PTA Team.

Ethical Decision-Making in Physical Therapist Practice

Jan 1, 2022/Article

Access considerations, guidelines, tools and resources to help you with general clinical decision-making in physical therapist practice.

Success Story | Building Intergenerational Relationships With Older Adults

May 1, 2025/Success Story

A program with a local retirement community helps the next generation of PTs and PTAs to better care for and relate to older adults.

Recommended Reading for Understanding Ethics in the Profession

Feb 16, 2023/Article

The Ethics and Judicial Committee picked their top 10 articles of relevance for PTs, PTAs, and students in 2023.

Prior Authorization: 5 Ways CMS Changes Could Open up Future Possibilities

Mar 7, 2023/Article

The proposed rules would help ease immediate burdens, but there are also long-game reasons to voice your support by March 13.

Study: Manual Therapy Works as Well, And Sometimes Better, Than Surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Mar 6, 2017/News

Researchers found similar improvement in self-reported function and CTS symptom severity for both surgical and physical therapy patients after 1 year, but the physical therapy group reported more significant gains in the first month.

A Physical Therapy Profile: Wages for the Profession, 2021-22

Jul 18, 2023/Report

This landmark report provides our best view of the current profession. It uses data from APTA's 2021-22 practice profile survey to illustrate the influences of geographic location, practice setting and clinical focus, years of experience, sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and advanced practice on wages earned