Occupation information for Physical Therapists District Of Columbia

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Typical education needed for entry: Doctoral or professional degree

Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation: No work experience

Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation: No on-the-job training

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• Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
• Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
• Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
• Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
• Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
• Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
• Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
• Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.
• Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
• Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.

Tools:

• Balance beams or boards or bolsters or rockers for rehabilitation or therapy
• Cognitive or dexterity or perceptual or sensory evaluation or testing products
• Patient care beds for specialty care
• Pivotal traction therapy supplies
• Work table or station for rehabilitation or therapy

Technology:

• Accounting software
• Action games
• Analytical or scientific software
• Medical software
• Word processing software

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