APTA Resources for Students Walkthrough

Welcome to PTNow a web portal designed to make it easier for physical therapy students and practitioners to apply the best available evidence to patient care and improve efficiency.

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APTA Website

How many APTA Sections exist and which one appeals to you the most and why?

Find the Practice Act of your home state or for a state you would like to visit on your clinicals. List the state and the practice act definition of the PT.

Go into the APTA Learning Center and identify a free course that you could take. Enter name of course below.

Locate the Careers and Education tab on the home page. List 2 career development opportunities that are available to you after you graduate.

Click on the Current Students link at the top of the home page, Student Leadership and Governance, and find Core Ambassadors. Who are Indiana’s Core Ambassador’s?

Article Search

Navigate to PTNow.  Find it using the search box on the APTA website or scrolling across the blue menu bar, highlighting to see contents of each section.

Use Article Search to access journals and other resources relevant to clinical practice, including free access to full-text research articles from more than 4,500 clinical and academic publications.

Locate and cite and article involving "traumatic brain injury" authored within the last 5 years.

List 3 ways to access PT Now. Two of these were given to you.

Rehab Reference Center

What is the Rehab Reference Center?

Per the Rehab Reference Center, what are the causes of an "Abdominal Muscle Strain"? (Patient Education tab)

In the Rehab Reference Center, what are the "areas of speciality" for an abdominal aortic aneurysm?
 

Under Exercise Images, find and document a path to an exercise with which you are currently unfamiliar. Example = Amputee, post-op, transfemoral, bridging.

Tests

List 2 Tests (Outcome Measures) that you could perform on a patient whose Health Condition = Cerebrovascular Accident and the Practice Area = Neurological.

Clinical Practice Guidelines (GPGs)

What are Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs)?

According to the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) developed by APTA, what kind of evidence supports “Patients who have had inferior vena cava (IVC) filters placed may be mobilized when they are hemodynamically stable and there is no bleeding at the puncture site.”

Clinical Summaries

What are Clinical Summaries?

Search for a summary using the search box and / or filters then answer this question.

According to Clinical Summaries, what are the extrinsic risk factors for Achilles Tendinitis / Tendinopathy?

According to the Clinical Summaries, is there evidence to support the use of iontophoresis as an intervention for Achilles Tendinitis / Tendinopathy?

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