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Direct Access: The Need for an Educational Component

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The recent success of legislative activity by APTA chapters has provided to the citizens of 20 states direct access to physical therapy practitioners. The outcome of this five-year effort currently allows 25,000 APTA members (52% of the total membership) to legally practice as the patient's first contact into the health care system. This initial achievement should provide the momentum for additional legislative success.

The beginning strategy for implementing the Association's goal of attaining direct access for physical therapists called for focusing our time, effort, and money on changing laws. This focus seemed reasonable five years ago. Now, however, I am concerned that APTA's leadership may have lost sight of the need to provide the kinds of educational activities that must accompany our legislative efforts in order to implement our goals responsibly in the direct access arena....

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