From our homes here in the Southeastern region of Pennsylvania, and the cozy enclaves of Massachusetts (where senior regional editor Rebecca Mayer hails), we at ADVANCE can't really complain too much about this previous winter. We dodged a lot of blizzard bullets and for the most part came through unscathed. Even our trip to APTA's Combined ...

  Bringing good research to realization is the key to lobby the PT profession to health care policymakers-and therapists can get involved in bringing the profession to the forefront. Marc S. Goldstein, EdD, senior director of research for APTA, wants the organization ''to be a bridge with the research realm to the policy realm,'' he said ...