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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #83 of 702. Estimated risk: 1.8%

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AI Exposure Risk

57%

“Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 57% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

48%

“Licensed Physical Therapy Assistant” will probably not be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 48% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Physical Therapist Assistants, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Assist physical therapists in providing physical therapy treatments and procedures. May, in accordance with state laws, assist in the development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, document the progress of treatment, and modify specific treatments in accordance with patient status and within the scope of treatment plans established by a physical therapist. Generally requires formal training.

Avg. Annual Salary $67,160
Avg. Hourly Wage $32.29
Available Jobs (US) 108,010
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Physical Therapist Assistants #31-2021
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Physical Therapist Assistants”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Measure patients' range-of-joint motion, body parts, or vital signs to determine effects of treatments or for patient evaluations.

  • Attend or conduct continuing education courses, seminars, or in-service activities.

  • Train patients in the use of orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices.

  • Communicate with or instruct caregivers or family members on patient therapeutic activities or treatment plans.

  • Perform therapeutic wound care.

  • Secure patients into or onto therapy equipment.

  • Fit patients for orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices, such as crutches.

  • Observe patients during treatments to compile and evaluate data on their responses and progress and provide results to physical therapist in person or through progress notes.

  • Confer with physical therapy staff or others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, or coordinating treatment.

  • Administer traction to relieve neck or back pain, using intermittent or static traction equipment.

  • Document patient information, such as notes on their progress.

  • Perform clerical duties, such as taking inventory, ordering supplies, answering telephone, taking messages, or filling out forms.

  • Assist patients to dress, undress, or put on and remove supportive devices, such as braces, splints, or slings.

  • Prepare treatment areas and electrotherapy equipment for use by physiotherapists.

  • Clean work area and check and store equipment after treatment.

  • Perform postural drainage, percussions, or vibrations or teach deep breathing exercises to treat respiratory conditions.

  • Transport patients to and from treatment areas, lifting and transferring them according to positioning requirements.

  • Administer active or passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, aquatic physical therapy, or heat, light, sound, or electrical modality treatments, such as ultrasound.

  • Monitor operation of equipment and record use of equipment and administration of treatment.

  • Instruct patients in proper body mechanics and in ways to improve functional mobility, such as aquatic exercise.

  • Instruct, motivate, safeguard, and assist patients as they practice exercises or functional activities.

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  • Laboratory information system LIS
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Digital cameras
  • High-voltage galvanic stimulation machines
  • Reciprocating walkers
  • Mechanical stethoscopes
  • Slings
  • Hemi walkers
  • Functional electrical stimulation FES equipment
  • Balance beams
  • Sliding boards
  • Lower-body isokinetic machines
  • Reachers
  • Single point canes
  • Cervical traction equipment
  • Hydrotherapy pools
  • Sequential compression devices
  • Resistive exercise bands
  • Ankle-foot orthotics
  • Wrist splints
  • Tablet computers
  • Inclinometers
  • Ultraviolet UV phototherapy lamps
  • Medical nasal cannulas
  • Stationary bicycles
  • Free weights
  • Safety goggles
  • Ergometers
  • Short wave diathermy devices
  • Cold packs
  • Muscle strength dynamometers
  • Crutches
  • Arm prosthetics
  • Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
  • Hoyer lifts
  • Front-wheel walkers
  • Platform walkers
  • Plumb lines
  • Below-the-knee prosthetics
  • Hi-lo manipulation tables
  • Sacro-illiac joint lumbar corsets
  • Medicine balls
  • Body-fat calipers
  • Paraffin baths
  • Quad canes
  • Standing cages
  • Personal computers
  • Electromyographs EMG
  • Protective gowns
  • Wheelchairs
  • Splints
  • Therapeutic hot packs
  • Cardiac monitors
  • Whirlpool therapy baths
  • Back braces
  • Interferential electrical stimulation machines
  • Lavage hydrotherapy equipment
  • Above-the-knee prosthetics
  • Powder boards
  • Pelvic traction equipment
  • Digital video cameras
  • Pulse oximeters
  • Mechanical percussors
  • Desktop computers
  • Automated external defibrillators AED
  • Iontopheresis equipment
  • Pick-up walkers
  • Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
  • Total lift chairs
  • Hand grips
  • Stretchers
  • Intermittent compression units
  • Massage equipment
  • Goniometers or arthrometers
  • Parallel bars
  • Reflex hammers
  • Standing tables
  • Notebook computers
  • Gait belts
  • Blood pressure cuffs
  • Upper-body isokinetic machines
  • Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
  • Portable oxygen equipment
  • Safety gloves
  • Surgical masks
  • Ultrasound machines
  • Tilt tables
  • Rotating bed
  • Patient positioning devices
  • Balance boards
  • Knee braces
  • Exercise trampolines
  • Swiss exercise balls
  • Posture grids