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• June 2008: Physical Therapists Offer Low-Cost Solution to High-Cost Expenditures for Spinal Conditions – The APTA recently issued a press release that discusses evidence that patients who receive physical therapy for musculoskeletal disorders, including back and neck pain, report good outcomes at a lower cost than using drugs or surgery. This is contrary to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggesting that spine-related expenditures have increased without evidence of improvement. Read the rest of this study.
  
  
• February 2008: Preserving the Quality of the Patient-Therapist Relationship: An Important Consideration for Value-Centered Physical Therapy Care (PDF)