This year I want to hear from fellow PTAs. I want to know your thoughts on healthcare changes, working relationships with PTs, and your ideas about increasing the PTA education to a bachelor's level as well as your feelings towards the APTA and the PTA profession. I would ask that you do a bit of research on reimbursement rates in Kansas for PTA ...

Reading Jason Marketti's blog last week reminded me of a discussion we're having here in Texas. It's called RC-3 and is an amendment to the Texas Physical Therapy Practice Act. It proposes unlicensed individuals such as athletic trainers and massage therapists be used as PT extenders. These extenders are to provide care as directed by the physical ...

Physical therapists who haven't been paying attention to the legislative battle raging in California might want to start. As the APTA detailed in its Aug. 30 press release, ''In California, a Rough Ride for Senate Bill 924,'' the latest salvo was just fired: ''California physical therapists have been infuriated by the legislative wrangling that ...

I recently received quite a few heartfelt responses to a blog I wrote last year on the subject of the dreaded PTA ''state board licensure exam.'' I feel your pain, people. I vividly remember the pre/post anxiety and panic of preparing and actually taking the test. Many readers asked about the timeliness of receiving the test results. My ...

I am going to pick on the APTA for this session. I rarely question the APTA and I am not a member of the organization so I can do this with an ''outsider's'' point of view. In November 2010, a guide for conduct of the PTA was issued by the Ethics and Judicial Committee. I read it then but decided not to question some of the standards; today is ...