From Challenge Coordinator to FPTR Funding Recipient: Thoughts on Current Health Crisis, Simple Respiratory Exercises Anne E. Palermo, PT, DPT, first became involved with the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research  (FPTR) during the 2013-2014 Marquette Challenge. She served as Chair for the University of Miami’s Challenge efforts. Most student [...]

Past FPTR-Funding Recipient Advances Knowledge of Health Disparities Amid Pandemic Lisa VanHoose, PT, PhD, MPH, is a physical therapist researcher, educator, and practitioner on the front lines in addressing health disparities in the current health pandemic. Though there is much more to be learned about the causes of these [...]

FPTR Researcher Sees Potential and Growth for the Physical Therapy Profession Amid COVID 19 FPTR funding recipient, Michael Tevald, PT, MPT, PhD, says COVID 19 survivors will have significant rehabilitation needs and that it is up to physical therapists to adapt and build strategies to help. Despite the challenges [...]

FPTR PRESIDENT AND ALUMNI AMONG THOSE RECEIVING APTA’S 2020 HONORS AND AWARDS The American for Physical Therapy Association (APTA) just announced the recipients of this year’s Honors and Awards Program. Awards are presented to APTA members for outstanding achievement in the areas of overall accomplishment, education, practice and service, [...]

Longtime Physical Therapist Gives through DAF to Support the Profession Focus your charitable giving to the causes that matter to you through a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF). With a DAF, donors choose to deposit donations into an account with a sponsoring organization that will grow in value and will later [...]

CARES Act Impact – RMD Waived in 2020 The inclusion of an expanded charitable giving incentive in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is a critical acknowledgement by Congress that the work of nonprofits like the FPTR are essential services. It is the first time Congress [...]

How the CARES Act Impacts Charitable Giving for 2020 The inclusion of an expanded charitable giving incentive in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is a critical acknowledgement by Congress that the work of nonprofits like the FPTR are essential services. It is the first time [...]

OHIO COUPLE PLEDGES 50K TOWARDS PELVIC HEALTH RESEARCH Cathy Konkler, PT, and her husband, Jeff, pledged $50K to advance pelvic health PT research. Physical therapist, Cathy Konkler, and her husband, CEO of Rehab Associates, Jeff, have committed to making the profession stronger through research. The Konklers pledged [...]