Professional Community

These past few weeks, I have been amazed by the professional community of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Academy of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy. First, and still waking up from the Combined Sections Meeting daydream, all the people who attended the Linda Crane Memorial Lecture and business meeting showed their belonging and support to our Academy. Second, I am fortunate to attend the Academy's Board meetings, and I can see first-hand, our leadership is trying to do better and bigger things for our members. Finally, 2 discussions that happened in the Academy's listserv (CVPLISTSERV). It was impressive how many colleagues jumped right away with answers to these requests for information. On the one hand, the generosity and friendship that I witnessed during the listserv exchange was humbling and encouraging. On the other hand, the cases that some of our colleagues discussed were extraordinary and I started wondering how the Journal could reach out to these clinicians and have them submit their experience to our Journal. These different interactions with friends and colleagues in 3 different settings have a common denominator: professional community and that is what our Journal is all about, to bring friends and colleagues together around the cardiovascular and pulmonary physical therapy world. In this issue, we are pleased to present 4 research reports, with a commentary to one of them, from Australia and the United States. First, Manske et al,1 surveyed orthopedic and sports physical therapists on their clinical management of deep vein thrombosis. They found some concerning results that prompted an insightful commentary from Shoemaker et al,2 one of our Associated Editors. Second, Pathare et al3 performed a systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of pulmonary rehabilitation in inpatients with COVID-19. Their results showed that inpatient rehabilitation is safe and improves patient's pulmonary outcomes; however, differences in study designs do not allow for more general conclusions. Next, from Australia's Dr. Annemarie Lee's group, Frank et al4 explored the use of background and self-selected music to increase patient's engagement in cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation programs. They found that most of the surveyed programs use background rather than self-selected music. Finally, Pata et al5 studied the use of simulation-based skills to check in cardiopulmonary education. Their results show that the use of simulation-based examinations is effective and reliable. The APTA Academy of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy is more than a professional association, it is a professional community, and the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy is honored to be one more component of this community.