In 2013, APTA's House of Delegates adopted APTA's Vision Statement for the Physical Therapy Profession: “Transforming society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience.” One of the Guiding Principles to Achieve the Vision is that “the physical therapy profession will define and promote the movement system as the foundation for optimizing movement to improve the health of society,” with the physical therapist being “responsible for evaluating and managing an individual's movement system across the lifespan to promote optimal development; diagnose impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions; and provide interventions targeted at preventing or ameliorating activity limitations and participation restrictions. The movement system is the core of physical therapist practice, education, and research.”
Has the physical therapy profession truly embraced the concept of the movement system? What would need to change for the profession to accelerate this process? Distinguished panelists from the research, education, and practice spheres discuss how best to prepare the profession to adopt and integrate the human movement system.
The Rothstein Roundtable is named in honor of Jules Rothstein, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Physical Therapy (PTJ) Editor-in-Chief Emeritus (1989–2005), who believed passionately in the importance of scholarly dialogue and debate.
The podcast is available at: http://ptjournal.apta.org/content/95/11/1466/suppl/DC1
- © 2015 American Physical Therapy Association
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