Knoxville District of TN Physical Therapy Association

07/28/2025

07/28/2025

Each Monday we will be working to introduce you to a Member of APTA TN’s Knoxville District. We are excited to introduce you to other PTs/PTAs in the area and would love to highlight you or your colleagues.

Dr. Don Reagan DPT, OCS, SCS, CSCS

Beyond the titles, my passion lies in bringing different fields together to help people perform at their best! I'm double board-certified in Orthopedic & Sports Physical Therapy and have a fellowship in Higher Education Leadership. After serving as Knoxville District Chair for three years, I now work with Carson-Newman University Athletics and teach in their Exercise Science program.
Having practiced full-time in outpatient settings for 10 years (and taught 25 grad students!), I've also been a faculty member at four different universities, covering everything from PT to athletic training and S&C.
What truly excites me is interdisciplinary collaboration. I've seen firsthand how the best insights come from where different fields meet—like anatomy and psychology, or biomechanics and motor learning. My favorite clinical tool is a dry erase board because I believe our most powerful tool is communication and the best PT/PTAs that I have been around happen to also be excellent educators.

https://www.apta.org/apta-magazine/2022/09/01/defining-moment-a-word-changed-us

07/26/2025

Meet your Knoxville District Officers:
“Two truths, no lies”

07/26/2025

Meet your patients where they are.

07/24/2025

‼️Attention‼️
We need action from you to help us get some bills passed. This one is The Optimizing Postpartum Outcomes Act. This will raise awareness of the availability and importance of pelvic health services, particularly Pelvic Health Physical Therapy, for postpartum women.

If you will contact your senator asking them to create a companion bill for H.R. 4074 and sponsor it upon release. Also contact your representative and ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 4074. If you can include how this personally affects you or your patients.

Below are the links to help you find your senator and representative. This is a quick and easy way for you to advocate for the profession. Please fill free to message us if you need help creating an email to send or if you have any questions.

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

07/22/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Joe Black DPT, ATC on being elected as secretary of ICCUS Society.

Congratulations to Joe Black from Prisma Health Total Rehabilitation, who was elected secretary of the ICCUS Society at the group’s July 2025 meeting!

The ICCUS Society is a group of clinicians, educators and researchers from around the world who are among the most experienced and well-respected practitioners in sports rehabilitation. Black has been a member of the group since 2009.

Well-deserved!

07/22/2025

The Knoxville District was represented at APTA House of Delegates with the TN chapter.

07/22/2025

Save the dates! Upcoming CEU opportunities for 2025. We have some great topics and speakers lined up. Specific locations and times will be coming soon here and on the APTA TN website.

07/17/2025

Save the date! This will be a great event! Networking from 6-6:30 and then CEU from 6:30-8.

07/14/2025

Knoxville representing!

Rabekah Gramlich PTA, BSPTA advanced proficiency pathway orthopedics Knoxville’s District Chair APTA TN, TN delegate.

Diane Michaels PTA certificated cancer rehab. APTA PTA council representative