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Specialist Certification

Maximize your PT potential by achieving ABPTS board certification in any of ten clinical specialty areas.

Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Clinicals

Mar 6, 2019/Podcast

Zach Stearns, PT, DPT, is a clinician in North Carolina. But in the spring of 2017 he was about to graduate PT school and was reflecting on his clinical rotations. Zach shares tips for students about to begin their clinical rotations.

American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Clinical Practice Guideline: Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (Update)

Mar 1, 2017/CPG

Evidence-based recommendations from the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery Foundation on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) as a disorder of the inner ear characterized by repeated episodes of positional vertigo.

Helen Hislop's Vision of Clinical Specialty: Where Are We Half a Century Later?

Oct 20, 2021/Perspective

Morris "Rick" Beato, PT, DPT, offers a contemporary view of Helen Hislop's historic McMillan lecture from 1975.

Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults. Rehabilitation Protocols, Ventilator Liberation Protocols, and Cuff Leak Tests

Jan 1, 2017/CPG

Provides evidence-based recommendations to optimize liberation from mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults. An official American Thoracic Society/American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline.

Instructive Queries

Jun 1, 2015/Column

Can PTs be compelled to provide clinical education? Should they be?

APTA Academy of Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Physical Therapy: Physical Therapist Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Individuals With Heart Failure (CPG+)

Jan 1, 2020/CPG

This document will guide physical therapist practice in the examination and treatment of patients with a known diagnosis of heart failure.

Facing COVID-19 as a Student Physical Therapist

Jun 22, 2020/Perspective

I realized that the anxieties I had are probably shared among all health care professionals, but this is just a part of life as a health care worker.

Physical Therapy Documentation Reform

Oct 1, 2013/Policies & Bylaws

House position: APTA shall pursue documentation standards that focus primarily on clinical reasoning and decision making in the provision of physical therapist services.