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Changes to Accessing the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice

Effective Jan. 31, 2021, APTA is changing how some users access the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice.

APTA Clinical Practice Guideline Structured Peer Review Form

Your responses will be used to assess the validity, clarity and accuracy of the interpretation of the evidence.

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity

Feb 1, 2023/CPG

This guideline from the American Academy of Pediatrics provides pediatricians and other pediatric health care providers with key action statements and consensus recommendations for the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents (aged 2-18) with obesity.

APTA Academy of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary PT and Academy of Acute Care: Role of Physical Therapists in the Management of Individuals at Risk for or Diagnosed With Venous Thromboembolism Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline 2022 (CPG+)

Aug 1, 2022/CPG

This update of a 2016 guideline provides assistance to physical therapists in the decision-making process when treating patients at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) or diagnosed with a lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (LE DVT).

Evaluation of the Child With Microcephaly (an Evidence-based Review) [Reaffirmed]

Jan 26, 2019/CPG

Recommendations concerning the evaluation of the child with microcephaly, including the use of neuroimaging and specific genetic testing.

Management of Osteoporosis and the Prevention of Fragility Fractures [SIGN 142]

Jan 1, 2021/CPG

This guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for best practice in the management of osteoporosis and prevention of fractures. It addresses risk factors for fracture, common tools for fracture risk assessment, approaches to targeting therapy, pharmacological, and nonpharmacological

Mining Data to Shape Practice

Feb 3, 2020/News

What's in a number? By itself, maybe not much. But collect a whole bunch of the right numbers and analyze them in the right ways, and you may be on the road to improving PT practice. In this month's issue of PT in Motion magazine: a look at how predictive analytics, sometimes referred to as probabilistic

Untenable Intervention

May 1, 2018/Column

What is a PT to do when the solution is a problem?

A Study in Uncertainty

Sep 1, 2018/Column

Is this patient a good subject for research?

Unsolicited Advice or Needed Input?

Feb 1, 2019/Column

A godmother debates whether to weigh in.