President’s Message
(October 2019)

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 / September 9, 2019 / News, President's Message Archive

It is all systems go at this time of the year. If you have school age children, you are already getting into a routine, and if you attend or work in higher education, the start of the academic year is rolling out this week. INAPTA is also in a state of all systems go with the work leading up to the recent updates to the Indiana Physical Therapy Practice Act, plus all we have planned for the upcoming months.

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President’s Message
(May 2019)

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 / May 15, 2019 / President's Message Archive

INAPTA Members, On May 1, 2019, Governor Holcomb signed SB 586 into law, and the updates to the Indiana Physical Therapy Practice Act will go into effect on July 1, 2019. You can see the updates with the language HERE. The bold areas represent the new language and the strike through removes language. The key

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President’s Message
(April 2019)

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 / April 10, 2019 / News, President's Message Archive

INAPTA Members, This is a heartfelt message of tremendous gratitude to all of you who helped make history happen this past week! On Tuesday, April 2, SB 586 received a House vote of 92:0, which solidified the update of our 60+ year old Physical Therapy Practice Act. This is an incredible outcome for this 2019

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President’s Message
(March 2019)

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 / March 11, 2019 / President's Message Archive

INAPTA Members, Thank you to all who responded to our requests over the past few weeks to contact your Senators to support Senate Bill 586. Senate Bill 586 was first heard in the Senate Health and Service Providers Committee on Wednesday, February 13. Senator Messmer, the author of SB 586, and Pauline Flesch, PT, MPS,

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President’s Message
(February 2019)

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 / February 1, 2019 / President's Message Archive

INAPTA Members, Flying home, after attending the Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) of the American Physical Therapy Association, I reflected on the energy that more than 16,000 physical therapists, physical therapist assistants and students of physical therapy brought to the meeting in Washington, DC. We truly are better together and can accomplish more to support our

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President’s Message (December 2018)

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 / December 24, 2018 / President's Message Archive

INAPTA Members, As we approach the end of 2018, I want to thank each of you for your support of INAPTA. Your dedication to the profession, whether by being a member of INAPTA or taking a role in the leadership of our association, has helped us move the profession forward in 2018. Much has been

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President’s Message (October 2018)

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 / October 23, 2018 / President's Message Archive

INAPTA Members, INAPTA co-hosted a very successful fall conference with the Kentucky Physical Therapy Association on September 21-22, 2018 in Louisville, KY. The joint conference took place on the beautiful campus of Bellarmine University. Over 200 physical therapists, physical therapist assistants and students of physical therapy attended the conference. On Friday evening, there was a

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President’s Message (July 2018)

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 / July 24, 2018 / News, President's Message Archive

Welcome summer! It is hard to believe that just a little over three months ago, we held the INAPTA Spring Meeting at Bradford Woods in what best could be called treacherous winter conditions. Several attendees could not make it to the meeting due to the dangerous road conditions, and the flights home for our speaker,

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President’s Message (May 2018)

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 / May 1, 2018 / News, President's Message Archive

INAPTA Members, There can be no doubt after last week’s warm and humid weather that summer has arrived in Indiana. The summer months are normally associated with a slowing of INAPTA activity with school out and vacations being taken. While our District meetings have taken a break, INAPTA leadership has been busy these past two

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President’s Message (March 2018)

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 / March 1, 2018 / News, President's Message Archive

With a little warmth from the sun and a stretch on daylight hours, it at last seems that Spring is not too far away. It feels like we have been hunkering down for the past few months with the bitter cold, snow and ice that we have endured this winter. However, we were very fortunate

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