Category Archives: info

February 26, 2015: Researchers in Austria say that they’ve successfully completed “bionic reconstruction” procedures that allow individuals to use their minds to control a prosthetic hand that can engage in complicated motor control activities. Source: APTA Feed 'Bionic Reconstruction' Restores ...

February 26, 2015: Legislation calling for the repeal of the Medicare outpatient therapy cap has been reintroduced in both the US Senate and House of Representatives. Source: APTA Feed Repeal of Therapy Cap Back in Congress

February 23, 2015: Work in postacute care? The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) wants you to know that it’s changing the way it collects data used in quality measures of PAC settings. Source: APTA Feed Learn More ...

February 25, 2015: PT in Motion News has shifted its weekly blast to Wednesdays to make room for a series of newsletters designed to deliver more customized information to members. Source: APTA Feed For PT in Motion News, Wednesday is ...

February 25, 2015: Physical therapy is front-and-center in a high-profile $64 million program that seeks to anchor research to real-world practice. Source: APTA Feed Physical Therapy's Prominence in Million Research Funding Program Reflected in Awards to Delitto, Duncan

February 13, 2015: A new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) looked at the use of complementary health techniques and found that in 2012, 34% of adults in the ...

February 24, 2015: Ending the Medicare therapy cap and repealing the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR), contributing to a White House discussion on aging, supporting research on rehabilitation and child health, and staying on top of the latest issues in ...

February 24, 2015: Physical therapy has been playing a role in the rehabilitation of patients fitted with a new type of artificial heart. Source: APTA Feed Physical Therapy Plays Role in Artificial Heart Development

February 23, 2015: A combination of economic factors, insurance deductible changes, and transformations in health care approaches is forcing many hospitals to reduce capacity or even close, according to an article published last week in Modern Healthcare. Source: APTA Feed ...

February 23, 2015: When patients with Parkinson disease (PD) were told that their injections cost $1,500, their motor function improved significantly more than when they received a $100 injection … even though both were placebos. Source: APTA Feed Patients With ...