BOARD CERTIFIED CLINICAL SPECIALIST IN SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY

Greg Given PT, MHS, SCS, ATC, CAFS first achieved board certification as a Clinical Specialist in Sports Physical Therapy in 2006, becoming the first in McHenry County and one of only a handful in Illinois with this distinction.  ABPTS board certification as a clinical specialist distinguishes physical therapists with “specialized knowledge and advanced clinical proficiency in a specialty area of physical therapist practice.”

 

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), a national professional organization representing more than 100,000 members throughout the United States, established the specialist certification program in 1978. Specialization is the process by which a physical therapist builds on a broad base of professional education and practice to develop a greater depth of knowledge and skills related to a particular area of practice. Clinical specialization in physical therapy responds to a specific area of patient need and requires knowledge, skill, and experience exceeding that of the physical therapist at entry to the profession and unique to the specialized area of practice.

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The specialist certification program was established to provide formal recognition for physical therapists with advanced clinical knowledge, experience, and skills in a special area of practice and to assist consumers and the health care community in identifying these physical therapists.