APTA Podcasts
Podcasts for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and students of physical therapy.
Latest episodes
Aug 27, 2021 • 18min
Are Interventions Delivered and Received as Intended?
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.
Aug 26, 2021 • 27min
#FightTheCut Rally, Fee Schedule, and August Recess – Advocacy and Regulatory Update
Get updates on the proposed Medicare physician fee schedule, what we’re doing to #FightTheCut, and how you can help.
Aug 4, 2021 • 28min
Walking the Walk of a Change Agent
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
Aug 2, 2021 • 11min
A Lucky Patient Encounter Provides Answers – Defining Moment
It wasn’t until she saw patients with the same rare condition that a PT realized what had been plaguing her own body for years.https://www.apta.org/apta-magazine/2021/08/01/apta-magazine-august-2021/a-lucky-patient-encounter-provides-answers
Jul 28, 2021 • 41min
Physical Therapy in Emergency Care: A Win-Win for Patients and Hospitals
In June 2020, the American Physical Therapy Association House of Delegates issued a position statement, Support of Emergency Physical Therapist Practice. Despite physical therapists’ knowledge about symptoms and conditions affecting many patients presenting for emergency care, they are not always considered by hospital administrators to be essential to emergency department staffing. In this podcast, APTA members Rebekah Griffith, PT, DPT, Carleen Jogodka, PT, DPT, and Lisa TenBarge, PT, DPT, discuss the evolving role of the PT in the emergency department — and what that may look like going forward.
Jul 27, 2021 • 27min
During the Covid-19 Pandemic — One Size Does Not Fit All: Author Interview With Mark Werneke
In a descriptive study that’s already been featured in 14 news stories, Mark Werneke, PT, and colleagues analyzed data on more than 222,000 patients in the Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes database. Werneke and Jette talk in depth about the relatively low use of telerehabilitation in the outpatient population studied.https://academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ptj/pzab110/6224412
Jul 22, 2021 • 33min
An Early Look at the Proposed 2022 Fee Schedule
The proposed 2022 Medicare fee schedule is here, and as expected, cuts and the PTA differential are moving forward. Kate Gilliard, APTA senior policy and regulatory affairs specialist, and Justin Elliott, APTA vice president of government affairs, provide an overview of both provisions, plus a look at CMS’ decisions around telehealth for PTs after the end of the public health emergency.
Jul 21, 2021 • 1h 2min
Celebrating Our Professional History
Director of Communications Lindsay Durand, PT, DPT, of APTA’s Student Assembly Board of Directors, Kelly Quigley, SPT, APTA Student Assembly centennial ambassador, and Gini Blodgett Birchett, MSLS, APTA’s senior information resources specialist, discuss our professional history and take questions from viewers.
Jun 30, 2021 • 20min
No One Way To Be a PT
This PT encourages others in the profession to expand the bounds of what PTs can be. https://www.apta.org/article/2021/06/10/no-one-way-to-be-a-pt
Jun 28, 2021 • 12min
Looking for the Zebras – Defining Moment
Every patient is a one in a million. By Kathleen Wild PT, DPT. https://www.apta.org/apta-magazine/2021/07/01/apta-magazine-july-2021/looking-for-the-zebras
