@APTAtweets this cannot be the standard we set for our profession. How much did our “strategic business partner” pay for this tweet? I hope it was worth the cost of our legitimacy as evidence based healthcare professionals providing a medically necessary service. https://twitter.com/aptatweets/status/1386674907749224455">https://twitter.com/aptatweet...

@APTAtweets simultaneously trying to fight for better reimbursement rates while also aligning with and promoting placebo as “effective treatment” seems like a strange strategy to me. Not sure it’s worth my literal hundreds of dollars each year tbh https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷‍♀️" title="Achselzuckende Frau" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckende Frau">

For clarity, here are my specific issues with this tweet:

God forbid we put out statements regarding Asian hate, immigrants’ rights, trans rights, systemic racism, police brutality, gun violence, generational poverty, and how all of those affect healthcare and well-being, yet our leadership will endorse a fucking massage gun https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤯" title="Explodierender Kopf" aria-label="Emoji: Explodierender Kopf">

Why bother having evidence based practice and statistics in our curricula when you’ll promote placebo and then hide the data from view?

Why am I paying hundreds of dollars per year for you to waste time on these bullshit “strategic partnerships” instead of figuring out the issues actually affecting your members? PT burnout, exorbitant tuition, and stagnant salaries are all issues affecting your members!

But sure, let’s have another conference in a city many of your members either can’t afford to go to or don’t feel safe in, charge members a ton of money whilst making money off an exhibit hall filled with placebo, and have the same old white men present the same topics each year.