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That Extra Mile: Physical Therapy for Endurance Athletes

Apr 1, 2025/Feature

Physical therapists share ways to treat and support long-distance athletes.

Competency-Based Education in Physical Therapy: Essential Outcomes for Physical Therapist Entrance Into Practice

Jul 8, 2025/Report (Open Access)

This report provides defined performance outcomes for physical therapists at entrance into practice. These outcomes were determined after an iterative, national consensus-based process grounded in the physical therapy needs of society.

Digital Health Technology and Physical Therapy

Apr 15, 2022/Statement

APTA maintains that "physical therapy," whether provided in person or virtually, is performed or directed by licensed physical therapists.

Defining Moment: Training Agents of Change

Dec 3, 2024/Podcast

Linda Robinson, PT, MSPT, volunteered in Haiti and discovered a love for teaching the country's first generation of physical therapists.

Letting the World Know About PTs and PTAs

May 1, 2023/Feature

APTA has launched programs aimed at successfully recruiting the next generation of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants.

Continuing Competence

Continuing Competence is the ongoing possession and application of contemporary knowledge and abilities commensurate with an individual's (physical therapist or physical therapist assistant) role within the context of public health, welfare, and safety.

Recruiting Tomorrow's PTs & PTAs

Aug 1, 2019/Feature

Physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, students, and educators work to bring in newcomers.

Treating Olympic Athletes: A Golden Opportunity

Aug 1, 2016/Feature

This month, world-class talent is descending on Rio. To ensure that the athletes arrive and compete in peak physical condition, physical therapists must be prepared for anything.

Gooooooooooooal-Oriented Physical Therapy: A Q&A With Soccer PTs

Nov 21, 2022/Interview

We asked physical therapists about working with soccer players — from youth athletes to elite professionals.

Dry Needling: Getting to the Point

May 1, 2015/Feature

Dry needling by physical therapists is a hot topic. What's fact? What's fiction? Take a look beneath the surface.