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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
Jan 10, 2020/News
The Foundation for Physical Therapy Research (FPTR) has named former APTA President Paul Rockar Jr., PT, DPT, MS, as its president. Rockar, who served as a foundation trustee for three years prior, assumed his new role on January 1, 2020. Rockar is a well-known figure in the physical therapy profession,
Feb 7, 2020/News
Ready to step up your participation in APTA? Calls are now open for several Board of Directors-appointed groups. The Board is seeking volunteers for the reference, ethics and judicial, finance and audit, public policy and advocacy, and scientific and practice affairs committees; as well as APTA awards
Nov 22, 2019/News
The physical therapy profession can breathe a little easier after convincing the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to back off from some of its more troubling proposals around work done by physical therapist assistants (PTAs) in the final 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS).
Nov 27, 2019/Review
Researchers believe physical therapist-led "creative yoga," can improve gross motor skills and the ability to imitate movement patterns among children with ASD.
Nov 20, 2019/Review
A final CMS rule makes it clear that it will move ahead in its efforts to make hospital cost data more accessible to consumers.
Dec 10, 2019/News
She's a physical therapist (PT) who might be lucky to get 20 minutes with her patients, tops. And sometimes, there are lights and cameras to contend with. At other times, she has to be aware of the fact that if she uses taping, it must not be visible to the literally millions of people all over the world
Dec 19, 2019/News
When more than a million people gather in Times Square to watch the ball drop and celebrate the beginning of 2020, APTA's ChoosePT message will be there with them. APTA has launched digital billboard advertising in Times Square that will run not only on New Year's Eve but through the end of March 2020.
Nov 5, 2019/Review
CMS is aiming to make payments for devices a little more predictable in light of ever-increasing options.
Dec 20, 2019/News
APTA and two other organizations are urging HHAs to keep patient access front-and-center and avoid "unnecessary staffing changes."