Just in time for 🎓 graduation season, #PTJournal editorial board members offer up their career advice for #PhysicalTherapy students when it comes to getting involved in research:

Don't miss our full October issue 🎃

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This packed issue includes articles covering rehab delivery across the care continuum and across conditions:

🏥 PT in the ICU

🌀 Vestibular rehab + cognitive behavior therapy for chronic dizziness

🫀 SPPB for predicting disability in heart failure

🧠 Physical activity after stroke

🏠 Social determinants and utilization of home health and outpatient PT

📐 Biomechanical contributions to capacity and efficiency after locomotor training

🧠 Timing of rehab after mild TBI

🪞 Constraint induced + mirror therapy in a rat model

👄 Physical activity and oral cancer recovery

🏥 This study evaluated a multifaceted physical therapy program in the medical #IntensiveCareUnit, finding that improvements in the percentage of patients receiving physical therapy, odds of receiving physical therapy, time to physical therapy, and proportion of days with physical therapy occurred for 3 years.

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Gregory Hicks, PT, PhD, and Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, have made lasting impacts on the profession through their work in research, education, and clinical practice. 👏

🔗 Learn more about why you won't want to miss their lectures at APTA CSM: apta.org/article/2026/1…

🏥 New #AcuteCare #CardioPulm research now published in #PTJournal: 🫀

For patients hospitalized with #HeartFailure, Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) scores taken early during the hospital admission were independently associated with hospital-acquired disability.

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⏰ Time is running out to save on #APTACSM! Register by Nov. 4 to save on an unforgettable experience filled with world-class education, connections across specialties, and new ideas moving physical therapy forward.

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Rehabilitation after total knee arthroplasty continues to evolve. Learn how APTA's updated clinical practice guideline came together, what's changed since the 2020 edition, and how the latest evidence is shaping patient care.

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Our new ⭐ Editor's Choice ⭐ article aimed to identify strategies used by #PrivatePractice physical therapists to manage missed appointments and assess their perceived effectiveness:

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This study used a rat model to investigate whether combined Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) and Mirror therapy (MT) improves functional recovery more than either therapy alone and examined accompanying motor cortical neuroplastic changes: 🧠

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This new #SystematicReview synthesizes evidence on physical activity in people living with or beyond oral cancer, concluding that physical activity—supervised, multimodal, and early-initiated—offers promising benefits for this population.

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🌀 More #dizziness research now published in #PTJournal!

This randomized controlled trial evaluated whether a group-based intervention integrating #vestibular rehabilitation and #cognitive behavioral strategies (VR-CBT) provides added benefit beyond a single-session brief vestibular intervention (BI-VR) in individuals with chronic dizziness.

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🧠 This new systematic review and #Metaanalysis reviewed 18 studies examining whether exercise reduces falls after #Stroke. Major findings included:

1️⃣ Overall, physical exercise significantly reduced the number of falls by 39%

2️⃣ Programs focusing on balance training and those integrating physical exercise with cognitive components (eg, dual-task training/mind-body exercise) were most effective

3️⃣ People in the chronic stage of stroke and with mild to moderate disability may benefit more from exercise.

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🧠 🏃‍♂️ Now in advance access in #PTJournal:

For individuals post-#stroke, high-intensity training resulted in significant improvements in VO2 gain, which were related to improvements in multiple biomechanical variables at higher treadmill speeds, while gains in gait efficiency were related to improved paretic limb power.

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Have you checked out the complete September issue of #PTJournal yet?

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Articles cover topics including:

🧑‍🏫 @APTA_official 57th McMillan lecture and 30th Maley lecture

🏥 Healthcare utilization after PT eval in the ED

👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Implementing Group PT in outpatient settings

🏋 Response to rehab for spinal stenosis

🤝 Personalized pain management

🤰 Pregnancy-related MSK pain

👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 This secondary analysis of a cluster randomized implementation trial assessed associations of organizational and contextual characteristics with implementation of Group Physical Therapy for knee osteoarthritis.

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Each year, #PTJournal publishes the @APTA_official McMillan lecture.

The 57th annual McMillan lecture from Christopher M. Powers, PT, PhD, FAPTA titled "Movement matters: the path to professional impact" is now available online:

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8 year analysis of 13k admissions investigating #physicaltherapy in #criticalcare #ICUrehab @PTJournal @AcuteCareAPTA @HopkinsAMP @NHausMD @uchealth @CUMedicalSchool @CU_PSCCM @CUPhysMed

#Newpub in @PTJournal by Drs. @NHausMD, @Dr_Ridge_DPT & team on Sustained Three-Year Impact of a #PhysicalTherapy #QualityImprovement Project in the Medical #IntensiveCareUnit. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42765596/

🎙️Our recent author interview #Podcast features Associate Editor @JBeneciuk interviewing Vincent Fontanier about his recently published #PTJournal study, which examined the impact of the reform and the changes in evidence-based practice competencies among physical therapist graduates.

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#ICYMI: Last month's editorial in #PTJournal tackles ambiguity, uncertainty, and misinformation in science and the physical therapy profession:

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