There has been a longstanding campaign by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) against physicians and physician groups that provide physical therapy services1. This basically stimulates the need to analyze the motive behind physician owned physical therapy practices (PTOP) and their overall effect on the physical therapy profession. The American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons claims that the PTOP promotes the delivery of quality and efficient care through the utilization of common space, resources and technology with the physical therapy unit2. It would seem ideal for a physical therapy practice to be owned by a licensed physical therapist (PT) and would be odd if a physical therapist decided to own a medical
