Imaging Community Leadership
Find contact information for the Imaging Community Leaders here.
Imaging Community
Imaging Community Information & Resources
Imaging Community Member Directory
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Become an Imaging Community Member
Any current APTA Orthopedics member can join the Imaging Community. Learn about the benefits of membership and join.
ITEMS OF INTEREST!
- Imaging Education Resources
Selected and curated by our very own Chuck Hazle, PT, PhD, and Bill Boissonnault, PT, DPT, DSc, FAAOMPT, FAPTA, who presented for our December 2023 membership meeting 'DPT Imaging Education: Will Graduates be Prepared for Today and Tomorrow's Practice?!' - Valuable Resource!
"The Academy of Orthopedic Physical Therapy, in collaboration with the Academy’s Imaging Community, support the ability of physical therapists to purchase diagnostic ultrasound devices for the continued purpose of research, point-of-care evaluation of patients, physical therapist rehabilitative interventions and procedures, in accordance with their scope of practice..."
View the letter template regarding US sales to Physical Therapists here.
- Imaging Advocacy Kit
The APTA State Affairs Department, with the assistance of the Imaging Community, has produced an “APTA State Advocacy Resource” for imaging referral. This resource includes key elements of information and multiple links in providing background toward achieving imaging referral by physical therapists in the US. Please see the accompanying document here.
- Call for Volunteers - Imaging-based CPG Content Reviewers
The Imaging Community is calling for volunteers to provide evidence-based reviews of imaging content for new and revised clinical practice guidelines (CPG). Read on.
- Education Encore: Imaging Community CSM Educational Session 2021 - Advances in Imaging Referral: Generating A New Pulse in Autonomous Physical Therapist Practice
Click here to access this presentation recording.
MLI.01 - Diagnostic Referral for Imaging: Clinical Decision
Free to members and non-members! Check it out.
State Acts & Regulations on Imaging Referral in PT Practice
View the status on each state's referral for imaging.
MSK Ultrasound Education and Credentialing
Learn about the pathway for education in diagnostic ultrasound in working toward the RMSK.
Imaging Community Scholarship
This awarded scholarship will advance the appropriate use of diagnostic and procedural imaging in Physical Therapy research and practice.
Imaging Community OPTP Newsletters
View all Imaging Community newsletters included in Orthopedic Physical Therapy Practice here.
Imaging Community Mentors
Find contact information for the Imaging Community mentors according to body region.
Imaging Community Infographic Contest
The Imaging Community is continuing to develop a series of infographics. The next will focus on physical therapists using ultrasound imaging in practice.
Imaging Community Infographics
View these winning infographics selected from our previously held infographic contest.
Imaging Community Webinars
View membership meeting recordings, and various webinars.
Imaging Community White Paper
View the 2016 paper, Diagnostic and Procedural Imaging in Physical Therapist Practice.