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Promoting Sleep: Not a Leap

Oct 1, 2018/Feature

When PTs snooze on broaching the subject of sleep health, patients and clients lose.

Study: Exercise-Based Intervention Could Reduce Disability Rates in Frail Adults

Jun 8, 2022/Review

Is mobility disability an inevitable part of aging for adults with frailty and sarcopenia? Maybe not, researchers say.

Elderly Mobility Scale (EMS)

Jun 18, 2013/Test & Measure

Measures mobility, particularly in frail elderly people.

Moving Away From Opioid Reliance

Oct 1, 2018/Feature

An APTA white paper analyzes the opioid crisis and outlines how physical therapy can contribute to the solution.

APTA Monkeypox Practice Advisory Now Available

Oct 3, 2022/News

The new resource is a quick reference to help PTs, PTAs, and others reduce the risk of transmission in clinical settings.

Patient Screenings

Screening empowers physical therapists to provide proactive, patient-centered care.

Weight, Activity, Variety, and Excess (WAVE)

Oct 22, 2014/Test & Measure

Measures diet and physical activity. W = Weight A = Activity V = Variety E = Excess

Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians

Mar 3, 2015/CPG

This guideline provides recommendations for the treatment of pressure ulcers in adult patients.

Taking Precautions for Mobility and Exercise as Potential Aerosol-Generating Procedures

Jun 22, 2020/Article

Mobilization, exercise, and ambulation are potential aerosol-generating procedures, and PTs and PTAs should have access to appropriate protection.

Behind the Numbers: Keeping the Patient at the Center of Pain Management

Feb 25, 2018/Article

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that over 115 people die from opioid overdose every day in the United States. In 2016 alone, 11.5 million people misused prescription opioids. According to a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation survey: 34% of respondents who had taken