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Jul 26, 2022/Review
Authors believe that assessing this important self-concept early on could help providers create more effective treatment programs.
May 2, 2022/Perspective
The onsite physical therapist must act with urgency — like your hair is on fire!
Mar 8, 2023/Roundup
PTs, PTAs, and long COVID treatment, long COVID as an episodic condition, post-PHE information from CMS, and more.
Jun 14, 2017/Test & Measure
This instrument has 10 items in three sections describing pain, function, range of motion, and deformity.
RF-PTCAS, the Residency and Fellowship Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service provided by APTA provides a simplified application process for physical therapist seeking a residency or fellowship program. RF-PTCAS launched in 2013 and since then, RF-PTCAS has grown to include over 85% of residency
Oct 1, 2025/Policies & Bylaws
House position: Physical therapists have the responsibility to practice autonomously in all settings, practice environments, and employment relationships.
Sep 13, 2017/Policies & Bylaws
House position: An individual physical therapist’s scope of practice is influenced by professional, jurisdictional, and personal scopes of practice.
Dec 22, 2020/CPG
These guidelines focus on physical, psychological, and pharmacological interventions for the management of primary and secondary chronic pain in children 0 to 19 years of age.
Oct 22, 2024/Report
The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy set out to define what PTs must know and be able to do to perform dry needling safely and effectively. Their latest study reveals the answers.
Apr 1, 2017/Column
When imprecision leaves room for judgment.