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Learn about the top sessions at APTA CSM.

Discover the top sessions identified by each APTA academy and section. From cutting-edge research to breakthrough treatments, these sessions offer something for everyone.

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APTA Acute Care

  • Leveraging Research Principles to Supercharge Your Quality Improvement Project.
  • ICU Readiness Isn’t Free: From Bedside to Budget — Leveraging Data and Story.
  • Stop the Leak: Applying the Professional Resource Lifecycle to Maximize Value in Your PT Department.

APTA Aquatics

  • The Science of Water Walking: Understanding Its Parameters to Maximize Its Benefits.
  • Reflexes, Regulation & Results: OT/PT Strategies in Pediatric Aquatic Therapy.
  • Strong Foundations: Stability Training in the Water.

APTA Cardiovascular and Pulmonary

  • Practice Innovation: From Evidence Synthesis to Clinical Practice Guideline Recommendations.
  • Take My Breath Away: A Dyspnea Guide for When to Panic, Treat, or Refer.
  • Stop the Revolving Door: Reclaiming Lost Weeks of Cardiac Rehab through a Novel Phase Shift.

APTA Clinical Electro & Wound Management

  • Shaping the Future of Wound Care: Opportunities for Collaborative Innovation.
  • Unlocking the Versatility of Dynamic Ultrasound: Expanding the Focus of POCUS in Physical Therapy Practice.
  • PT for Polyneuropathy: Science or Snake Oil?.

APTA Academy of Education

  • Predicting Success: Academic Variables and NPTE Performance.
  • Integrating Generative AI as a Metacognitive Coaching Assistant for Master Adaptive Learning in Physical Therapy Education.
  • Hybrid vs. Residential Education: Career Regret, Cost, Demographics, Professional Formation, and Learning Outcomes Using PT-GQ.

APTA Federal

  • Making Behavior Change Work: Theory-Informed Strategies for Physical Therapy Practice.
  • Past the Plateau: Evidence-Based Approach to Optimize Prosthetic Outcomes after Lower Limb Amputation.
  • Getting the Skinny on GLP-1s: An Interdisciplinary Guide for Physical Therapists.

APTA Geriatrics

  • How Hard Is Hard Enough? Delivering High-Intensity Rehabilitation in Medically Complex Older Adults.
  • Fall in Love with Safe Fall Landing Strategies.
  • AMA-Zing Insights on Clinical Implementation of the Annual Mobility Assessment: From Screening to Reimbursement.

APTA Hand and Upper Extremity

  • The Stalled Upper Extremity Athlete: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Evaluation and Management.
  • It’s Not Just Tommy John: Differential Diagnosis and Management of Elbow Injuries in Baseball.
  • Little Phanatics: Surgical and Non-Surgical Rehabilitation Considerations of Upper Extremity Injuries in the Youth Thrower.

APTA Home Health

  • Current and Hot Topics in Home Health.
  • Driving Clinician Success in Home Health: Integrating OASIS, Leadership, and Burnout Reduction.
  • #Oldnotweak - from Bed Mobility to Back Squats: Scaling Intensity for Every Patient.

APTA Leadership & Innovation

  • Lamp Leadership TED Style Talks – Beyond the Title: The True Work of Leading.
  • Navigating Substance Use Conversations in Physical Therapy Practice.
  • The Primary Care PT Tidal Wave: How to Redefine, Reposition and Revolutionize the PT Profession.

Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy

  • No, We Are Not Fooling Ourselves: The Critical Importance of Dosage Parameters during Locomotor Training.
  • Anne Shumway-Cook Lecture: Imagining, Inventing, Implementing and Sustaining Innovation in Neurologic Physical Therapy Practice.
  • Asymmetry, Gain, and Saccades: Demystifying Video Head Impulse Test for Physical Therapists.

APTA Oncology

  • Prognosis to Plan of Care: Decision-Making in Inpatient & Outpatient Cancer Rehab.
  • What Do I Say Now? Practical Skills for Responding to Decline and Uncertainty in Rehabilitation.
  • From Evidence to Action: Navigating the Oncology Rehab Clinical Practice Guideline Landscape.

Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy

  • Claiming Movement As the Foundation of Clinical Reasoning in Physical Therapy.
  • From Uncertainty to Objectivity: Enhancing Clinical Decisions with Handheld Ultrasound and Motion Analysis.
  • The Right Load at the Right Time: Optimizing Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation and Performance.

APTA Pediatrics

  • What’s Old Is New Again: Nuanced Manual Techniques for Weak Coughs.
  • New Clinical Practice Guideline for Promoting Mobility in Ambulatory Youth with Cerebral Palsy: Content/Application.
  • Physical Therapy Management of Idiopathic Toe Walking: An APTA Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guideline.

APTA Pelvic Health

  • Advanced Management of Endometriosis: Assembling the Avengers.
  • Beliefs, Bodies, and Behaviors: Interprofessional Approaches to Religious Influences on Pelvic Pain and Sexual Health.
  • Postpartum Care: Breaking the Delayed Referral Model in Pelvic Health Physical Therapy.

APTA Private Practice

  • Mastering the 2027 Payer Landscape: Contracting, Compliance, and Choice.
  • More Than a Clinician: Unlocking Your Entrepreneurial Mindset in Physical Therapy.
  • Your Expertise Is Newsworthy: How to Leverage Earned Media to Grow Your Career and Practice.

APTA Academy of Research

  • Eugene Michels Research Forum.
  • Comparing Pathways to Competency: A Multi-Institutional Logic Model Analysis of CBEPT Implementation.
  • Brain Drain or Strategic Expansion? the Future of Physical Therapy Research Outside PT Departments.

American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy

  • Evolution of Injuries in Baseball, Tennis, and Golf: What Modern Clinicians Need to Know.
  • Achilles Tendinopathy in Runners: A Current-Evidence Update on Assessment and Management.
  • Availability Is the Best Ability: From Residual Injury to Performance Longevity in Elite Athletes.

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