"Physical therapy is not a subspecialty of the medical profession and physical therapists are not medical doctors; we are a separate profession that provides a unique service that physicians are unable and untrained to provide."

Letter to the AMA from the APTA, Dec 2009

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Florida's Direct Access to Physical Therapists Website is Live!

Mad props (whatever that means) to Paul Hardin of the Texas Physical Therapist Association for giving Florida physical therapists our own direct access web site at AccessYourPhysicalTherapist.com/Florida.

The Texas group are leaders in direct access - they have legislation in place that would give them unrestricted direct access

Seventeen states currently do not require a referral to see a physical therapist and none of those states have experienced an increase in liability claims.

Go to the new AccessYourPhysicalTherapist.com/Florida page, sign the petition and donate to the cause!

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Tim Richardson, PT owns a private practice at Medical Arts Rehabilitation, Inc in Palmetto, Florida. The clinic website is at MedicalArtsRehab.com.

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