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How to Become a Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA)
A physical therapy assistant – sometimes referred to as a “PTA” – are highly skilled healthcare workers that are responsible for carrying out treatment programs for their patients directly under the direction of a licensed physical therapist. These professionals work...
The Benefits of Joining the Colorado Physical Therapy Network
The Colorado Physical Therapy Network (CPTN) is a special organization designed specifically for physical therapists, physicians, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists. It creates a group-based structure that is designed to increase cooperation...
Technology in Physical Therapy
New technology is everywhere, it's no surprise to see it in Physical Therapy as well. Physical therapists are known for their innovative and improvisational nature. Examples of their creativity throughout the years include the utilization of rope and pulley systems to...
New P.T. Alliance Achieves Higher Collections
The healthcare industry continues to consolidate at all levels. Payer relationships have evolved into a one-sided hierarchy where the rehab practice has no voice while reimbursements continuously decline. Frustrated with ineffective national industry...
Marketing Strategies for Physical Therapists
As a physical therapist, you are an expert in the overall care and the unique treatments associated with various types of physical conditions. As a result, your patients are capable of achieving the absolute best results. While it is true that you must spend the...
Hand and Wrist Physical Therapy Specialty
As a physical therapist, your primary goal is to maximize the quality of life of the individuals that you work with. Your career is highly varied. You will work with patients of all ages and with all types of abilities and issues. You are likely to work in a variety...
Fitness and Wellness Physical Therapy
As a physical therapist, you may choose from numerous different specialties. One specialty that is quickly increasing in popularity is fitness and wellness. As a fitness and wellness physical therapist, you will focus on assisting your clients boost their overall...
Amputee Rehabilitation – Recreating Mobility and Functionality One Patient at a Time
As a physical therapist, you have many career options. Each year, millions of people benefit from the hands-on treatment and assistant services provided by physical therapists. In fact, for many of these individuals, physical therapy means the difference between...
Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy
Disorders associated with the cardiopulmonary system are commonly experienced by adults. If you are a physical therapist that has an interest in disorders of the heart and the lungs, you should consider working in the specialty of cardiopulmonary physical therapy. You...
Aquatic Physical Therapy Rehabilitation
All physical therapists have one thing in common; that is, to enhance the quality of life of each individual that they work with. If you are reading this, chances are, you have worked with individuals of all ages, each with their own unique set of abilities. You have...
10 Biggest Trends in Physical Therapy in 2020
2020 has proven to be quite a roller coaster of vast and massive changes in the physical therapy industry, as well as the healthcare industry – as a whole. Though the year is not quite over, physical therapists have had to quickly adapt to a multitude of changes....
How to Educate Your Physical Therapy Patients
As physical therapists, we are trained to engage in highly comprehensive physical examinations of each and every single patient that we work with. We evaluate their strength, their range of motion, the gait, their coordination levels, posture, symmetry, and a wide...