PTJ talks about predicting low back pain improvement improvement. Read the article at https://academic.oup.com/ptj /pzab176/6326850

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Predicting Low Back Pain Improvement: Author Interview With Gerard Brennan

APTA Fit for Practice, powered by Hyperice, is designed to help you recover, evolve, and remain resilient as we move forward into a postpandemic workplace. This episode provides a high-level overview of the initiative, what you can expect, and more.

Introducing APTA’s Fit for Practice Initiative

Defining moments can come more than once, a move to America, the birth of a baby, starting a practice, and a being thrown a curveball.

Defining Moment – Confirming and Reaffirming

APTA’s monthly advocacy and regulatory update has expanded to cover commercial payment issues! In this episode: how the commercial insurance industry is altering the course of telehealth for PTs and PTAs, the evolution of utilization management (and APTA’s impact on that evolution), and advice on addressing challenges with payers.

Telehealth, Utilization Management, and Claims Challenges: Commercial Payers Update

PTJ talks with Pamela Dunlap about fear-avoidance beliefs and how measurement of those beliefs can help clinicians identify people at a greater risk of disability after vestibular disorder. “We had hypothesized that fear-avoidance would be associated with symptom burden, function, quality of life, disability, and psychological distress,” Dunlap says, but until the development of the … Continue reading Vestibular Disorders: Fear-Avoidance Beliefs and Perceived Disability

Vestibular Disorders: Fear-Avoidance Beliefs and Perceived Disability

See the history of the physical therapy profession in a different light! Editor-in-Chief Alan Jette, PT, PhD, FAPTA, talks with David Nicholls, author of PTJ’s latest history essay and of the controversial 2017 book titled “The End of Physiotherapy.”

Physical Therapy’s Hidden History: Needle in a Haystack

Have you ever stopped to think about your bias? In ways big and small, we all express bias, but it’s up to us to meet our bias with awareness, empathy, and with inclusivity in mind. In this discussion, we’ll talk about these themes and more with physical therapist and educator Brian Wilkinson, PT, DPT, who … Continue reading Advancing Inclusion in the Classroom — and Beyond

Advancing Inclusion in the Classroom — and Beyond

We’ve wrapped up a #FightTheCut virtual rally that brought together PTs, PTAs, and students from across the country to send a clear message to CMS about the flawed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule it proposed. So where do things stand now? This podcast takes a post-rally look at where we are—and what needs to happen … Continue reading The #FightTheCut Virtual Rally: How Did We Do, and What’s Next?

The #FightTheCut Virtual Rally: How Did We Do, and What’s Next?

Listen to this PTJ interview that discusses two recent essays on the history of physical therapy in the military, as well as important and insightful lessons on what can be learned from the military to empower the profession in civilian health care. 

“An Incredible Record” — Physical Therapists in the Military

APTA’s monthly practice update covers multiple topics from the perspective of what’s happened, what’s hot right now, and what to keep an eye on in the future. In this episode: physical therapists in emergency care, learning center resources, COVID-19, and more.

Emergency Care, Learning Center Workshop, COVID-19 — Practice Update

A physical therapist known to two kids only as “the Exercise Lady” helped both them and their family in a time of need. Pat McAdoo, PT

A Physical Therapist by Any Other Name – Defining Moment

PTJ Editor-in-Chief Alan Jette, PT, PhD, FAPTA, talks with Kathleen Mangione, PT, PhD, FAPTA, about something critically important to physical therapists but rarely top of mind: treatment fidelity.

Are Interventions Delivered and Received as Intended?

Get updates on the proposed Medicare physician fee schedule, what we’re doing to #FightTheCut, and how you can help.

#FightTheCut Rally, Fee Schedule, and August Recess – Advocacy and Regulatory Update

How did military PTs establish successful, supportive relationships with the military physician community? What are the critical insights for the future of physical therapy both in terms of education and clinical practice? The author shares lessons and insights, including the remarkable safety record of PT direct access in the military that could help guide civilian … Continue reading Physical Therapists in the Military — “An Incredible Record”

Physical Therapists in the Military — “An Incredible Record”

Change is difficult. Those words ring true for most, even for those who consider themselves “change agents,” but change doesn’t have to be negative or a struggle. That’s what we’ll talk about today with Stephanie Kostsuca, PT, DPT.https://www.apta.org/article/2021/03/03/walking-the-walk-of-a-change-agent

Walking the Walk of a Change Agent

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