Foundation for Physical Therapy Research - Acute Care Research Grant program

Grants will be awarded to emerging investigators to support research related to issues relevant to acute care physical therapy practice. FPTR defines an “emerging investigator” as one who has not previously acquired a substantive extramural research award as an independent principal investigator.

Studies should seek to do one or more of the following: evaluate the clinical effectiveness of therapeutic interventions; assess the interaction between patient characteristics and therapeutic methods; explore the scientific basis for interventions used in physical therapy; or address an item identified in the APTA Research Agenda. Priority will be given to studies which have direct application to the practice of physical therapy, address the need for measurable outcomes, ask a new question important to intervention or its validation or address a previously asked question with a new methodology, different sampling strategy or a different form of analysis.

The foundation supports only those intervention studies in which physical therapists provide the interventions, or selected components of the interventions are provided by physical therapist assistants, under the direction and supervision of physical therapists.