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Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.

Currently Employed: 198,600

Yearly Projected Openings: 10,060

Typical Hourly Wage: $31.66 - $44.14

Typical Annual Salary: $65,900 - $91,800

• Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
• 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.
• Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
• Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.
• 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.
• Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
• Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
• Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
• Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.

• Cognitive or dexterity or perceptual or sensory evaluation or testing products
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care
• Pivotal traction therapy supplies
• Reflex hammers or mallets
• Work tables or stations or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy

• Accounting software
• Action games
• Medical software
• Office suite software
• Word processing software