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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.


APTA Acute Care

  • The Value Adventure in Acute Care: Let Us Edutain You – Part 2.
  • Data-Driven Strategies for Targeted Physical Therapy and Discharge Planning.
  • Sink, Swim, or Support: Employing a Mentorship Model to Optimize Student and Employee Development.

View all Acute Care sessions.

APTA Aquatics

  • Aquatic Applications for Balance Optimization and Fall Prevention Part 1.
  • Step By Step: Aquatic Therapy to Improve Gait in Children with Neuromuscular Disorders.
  • Integrating Physical Therapy for Autism in Aquatic Environments Using ASAP (Aquatic Safety Autism Program).

View all Aquatics sessions.

APTA Cardiovascular and Pulmonary

  • Social Justice, Health Equity and Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy: A Natural Alliance.
  • Burnout, Moral Injury, and Compassion Fatigue in Complex Cardiopulmonary PT: Clinical and Systemic Challenges.
  • Heart and Brain: A Lifelong Conversation of Impact and Influence.

View all Cardiovascular & Pulmonary sessions.

APTA Clinical Electro & Wound Management

  • The Spark We've Been Missing: Biophysical Agents That Supercharge Physical Therapy Interventions.
  • Enhancing Primary Care Physical Therapy with Point-of-Care Diagnostics.
  • Navigating Wound Care Reimbursement: A Physical Therapist's Guide to Coding, Compliance and Coverage.

View all Clinical Electrophysiology & Wound Management sessions.

APTA Academy of Education

  • Show and Tell: Empowering Physical Therapy Faculty with Practical AI Applications for Teaching and Learning.
  • Building Stronger Pathways: Best Practices in DPT Education Admissions and Retention Task Force Updates.
  • Academic Coaching in Physical Therapy Education: Unlocking Student Potential and Performance.

View all Education sessions.

APTA Federal

  • Remotely Effective: How to Optimize Virtual Health Physical Therapy in the Military Health System.
  • Mission Readiness: Addressing and Preventing RED-S in Tactical Athletes.
  • Unlocking Direct Access- What Is Taking so Long? Pathways to Timely Physical Therapist Services.

View all Federal Physical Therapy sessions.

APTA Geriatrics

  • AI-Powered Health Literacy and Patient Activation: Transforming Chronic Disease Management in Geriatric PT Care.
  • What’s the ‘Dill’ with Pickleball? the ‘Bread and Butter’ of America’s Fastest Growing Sport.
  • Navigating Menopause: A Transdisciplinary Perspective to a Purposeful Quality of Life.

View all Geriatrics sessions.

APTA Hand and Upper Extremity

  • Clinical Anatomy, Evaluation, and Treatment for Neuromusculoskeletal Conditions of the Upper Extremity.
  • Uncovering the Hidden Contributors: A Broader Look at Pitcher Dysfunction through the Kinetic Chain.
  • The Evolution of Tommy John: Surgery and Rehab Considerations for UCL Repair with Internal Bracing.

View all Hand and Upper Extremity sessions.

APTA Home Health

  • Current and Hot Topics in Home Health.
  • Home Health Research Review.
  • Discharge Function Score Measure: The Who, What, How, and Why for Home Health Physical Therapists.

View all Home Health sessions.

APTA Leadership & Innovation

  • This Talk Is All Substance: TED Talks and Panel Discussion on Cannabis, Opioids and Psilocybin.
  • The AI-Empowered Clinician: Reinventing Documentation, Learning and Innovation in Outpatient Physical Therapy.
  • Doctoring in Physical Therapy: Leading the Shift to Primary Care Providers.

View all Leadership & Innovation sessions.

Academy of Neurologic Physical Therapy

  • From Barriers to Bridges: Enhancing Exercise Accessibility for Dysautonomia Profiles.
  • A Clinical Practice Guideline to Improve Locomotor Function in Individuals with Acute and Subacute Stroke .
  • A Case-Based Interactive Session with Video-Scenarios of Central and Peripheral Vestibular Disorders.

View all Neurology sessions.

APTA Oncology

  • Bone Deep: Applying the Exercise Recommendations for Patients with Bone Metastases.
  • Integrating Physical Therapy into End-of-Life Care for Patients with Metastatic Cancer.
  • Integrating Physical Therapy into End-of-Life Care for Patients with Metastatic Cancer.

View all Oncology sessions.

Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy

  • A Multi-Systemic Approach to Tendinopathies: Muscle-Tendon Tissue, Brain, Psychology, and Systemic Disease.
  • What Every Orthopedic Therapist Should Know about CRPS.
  • Blending Pain Neuroscience Education with Movement in PT – a Step By Step Practical Guide.

View all Orthopaedics sessions.

APTA Pediatrics

  • Guided By Growth: Age and Diagnosis Based Lower Extremity Joint Mobilization in Pediatric Physical Therapy.
  • Building New Pathways for the Treatment of Pediatric Somatic Symptom Disorders.
  • Stronger Together: Collaborative Strategies for Managing Hypertonia and Enhancing Participation in Children.

View all Pediatrics sessions.

APTA Pelvic Health

  • Think Outside the Pelvis: Top Down and Bottoms up!
  • Redefining Midlife Sexuality: Integrative Breakthroughs for Perimenopausal & Menopausal Pelvic Wellness.
  • Bendy but Not Broken: Supporting Pelvic and Sexual Health in Patients with Hypermobility.

View all Pelvic Health sessions.

APTA Private Practice

  • The Cash Pay Revolution: Innovative Payment Models in Physical Therapy.
  • Smart Moves, Safe Boundaries: Using AI in Clinical Physical Therapy.
  • OK Boomer, Meet Gen Z: Bridging the Gap in Healthcare Teams.

View all Private Practice sessions.

APTA Academy of Research

  • First, Do No Harm: Will AI Rewrite the Rules of Rehabilitation?
  • Logic Models to Guide and Study Competency-Based Curricular Transformation in Physical Therapy Education.
  • Research Funding Symposium: A Conversation with Funding Agencies.

View all Research sessions.

American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy

  • Beyond Timeframes: A Criteria-Based Approach to Rehabilitation and Return to Sport after ACL Reconstruction.
  • Fastball Velocity, Injury Risk, and Performance: A Major League Perspective on the Tommy John Epidemic.
  • Be World Cup Ready: Elite Soccer Athlete Management Tools from the Pros.

View all Sports sessions.

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