{"id":21367,"date":"2022-08-23T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/american-physical-therapy-association-adopts-public-position-presented-by-richard-severin\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:22:39","slug":"american-physical-therapy-association-adopts-public-position-presented-by-richard-severin","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/american-physical-therapy-association-adopts-public-position-presented-by-richard-severin\/","title":{"rendered":"American Physical Therapy Association adopts public position presented by Richard Severin"},"template":"","news_categories":[22,24],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-21367","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-extracurricular-engagement","news_categories-kudos"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>The motion on Non-Pharmacologic Blood Pressure Management for Physical Therapists (motion RC-9-22) drafted and presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/physical-therapy\/directory\/severin-richard-steven\/\"><strong>Richard Severin<\/strong><\/a> on behalf of the Illinois delegation at the 2022 American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) House of Delegates passed Sunday, Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p>This now means that the public position by APTA is that the non-pharmacologic management (including screening, prevention, etc.) of blood pressure disorders is within the physical therapy scope of practice. This opens the door to blood pressure disorders becoming a referring diagnosis for physical therapists and blood pressure improvements as stand alone reimbursable goals presenting a new opportunity for PTs to improve the health of patients in their communities across settings and the continuum of care.<\/p>\n<p>An official report is forthcoming.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"The non-pharmacologic management of blood pressure disorders is now within the physical therapy scope of practice","content_author":"Erika  Chavez","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=21367"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=21367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}