Josh Subialka
PT, DPT, DSc, OCS, FAAOMPT
Josh Subialka is an assistant professor at Midwestern University in Glendale, AZ where he has worked since 2020 teaching entry-level DPT students in the areas of physical therapy evaluation, therapeutic exercise, and a variety of musculoskeletal and manual therapy content. He also works part-time in the MWU clinic working with patients and mentoring MWU DPT students. Josh has been involved in teaching continuing education courses since 2017, teaching the comprehensive management course series, as well as dry needling and clinical decision making. He is a graduate of the College of St. Scholastica’s DPT program, as well as Upstream Rehab Institute’s orthopedic residency program, becoming an orthopedic clinical specialist (OCS), and the orthopedic manual physical therapy fellowship program, becoming a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists (FAAOMPT). He continues to be active in the URI fellowship program as a lead faculty member in the clinical decision making and research coursework, as well as an active mentor for fellows-in-training across the country. In 2021, Josh graduated from Bellin College with a Doctor of Science (DSc) degree, where he published works on patient expectations and manual therapy trials for low back pain in prestigious journals such as JOSPT. His current research interests are patient expectations and perceptions of physical therapy/manual therapy, trial methodology and clinical applicability, qualitative-driven research, and social determinants of health with accessibility to PT services. Josh is a national presenter/speaker, having presented at local, AAOMPT, and CSM conferences and is an active member of the APTA and AAOMPT organizations with a strong desire to contribute to actionable legislative change to improve the quality of entry-level and post-professional education and manage the student debt crisis with changes to educational costs and insurance reimbursement.
