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Job Description
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.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 31-2021.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 56,850.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 27.00
- Currently, there are 85,580 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Physical Therapist Assistants”.
Also Known As…
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Staff Physical Therapy Assistant
- Physical Therapy Technician (Physical Therapy Tech)
- Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA)
- Physical Therapist Assistant and Nurse Aide
- Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA)
- Per Diem Physical Therapist Assistant (Per Diem PTA)
- Outpatient Physical Therapist Assistant
- Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant (LPTA)
- Home Health Physical Therapist Assistant
- Certified Physical Therapist Assistant (CPTA)
- Rehabilitation Assistant
- Physiotherapy Assistant
Tasks for “Rehabilitation Aide”
- 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.
- Measure patients' range-of-joint motion, body parts, or vital signs to determine effects of treatments or for patient evaluations.
- Clean work area and check and store equipment after treatment.
- Administer traction to relieve neck or back pain, using intermittent or static traction equipment.
- Transport patients to and from treatment areas, lifting and transferring them according to positioning requirements.
- Perform postural drainage, percussions, or vibrations or teach deep breathing exercises to treat respiratory conditions.
- Attend or conduct continuing education courses, seminars, or in-service activities.
- Fit patients for orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices, such as crutches.
- Monitor operation of equipment and record use of equipment and administration of treatment.
- Administer active or passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, aquatic physical therapy, or heat, light, sound, or electrical modality treatments, such as ultrasound.
- Secure patients into or onto therapy equipment.
- Instruct, motivate, safeguard, and assist patients as they practice exercises or functional activities.
- Communicate with or instruct caregivers or family members on patient therapeutic activities or treatment plans.
- Confer with physical therapy staff or others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, or coordinating treatment.
- Train patients in the use of orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pulse oximeters
- Gait belts
- Safety goggles
- Digital video cameras
- Front-wheel walkers
- Above-the-knee prosthetics
- Rotating bed
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Upper-body isokinetic machines
- Personal computers
- Knee braces
- Iontopheresis equipment
- Sequential compression devices
- Splints
- Hydrotherapy pools
- Reachers
- Notebook computers
- Therapeutic hot packs
- Inclinometers
- Digital cameras
- Medicine balls
- Hoyer lifts
- Posture grids
- Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
- Reciprocating walkers
- Surgical masks
- Balance beams
- Sliding boards
- Balance boards
- Safety gloves
- Blood pressure cuffs
- Slings
- Quad canes
- Ultraviolet UV phototherapy lamps
- Desktop computers
- Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
- Exercise trampolines
- Massage equipment
- Single point canes
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
- Crutches
- Cold packs
- Goniometers
- Tablet computers
- Wrist splints
- Stretchers
- Paraffin baths
- Resistive exercise bands
- Lower-body isokinetic machines
- Patient positioning devices
- Hemi walkers
- Body-fat calipers
- Ankle-foot orthotics
- Wheelchairs
- Sacro-illiac joint lumbar corsets
- Parallel bars
- Protective gowns
- High-voltage Galvanic stimulation machines
- Ergometers
- Electromyographs EMG
- Mechanical percussors
- Below-the-knee prosthetics
- Standing cages
- Tilt tables
- Standing tables
- Medical nasal cannulae
- Functional electrical stimulation FES equipment
- Pick-up walkers
- Lavage hydrotherapy equipment
- Hi-lo manipulation tables
- Arm prosthetics
- Free weights
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Cardiac monitors
- Powder boards
- Total lift chairs
- Stationary bicycles
- Portable oxygen equipment
- Pelvic traction equipment
- Platform walkers
- Plumb lines
- Swiss exercise balls
- Whirlpool therapy baths
- Hand grips
- Short wave diathermy devices
- Intermittent compression units
- Interferential electrical stimulation machines
- Ultrasound machines
- Reflex hammers
- Back braces
- Cervical traction equipment
- PhysioGraphic
- Microsoft Access
- Spreadsheet software
- Bookkeeping software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Virtual reality game software
- Billing software
- TherAssist
- Microsoft Office
- SpectraSoft AppointmentsPRO
- Beaver Creek Software The THERAPIST
- Microsoft Excel
- Video game software
- Arena Health Systems Phys-X
- PhysioTools Tools RG
- FileMaker Pro
- Email software
- Word processing software
- Laboratory information system LIS
- Microsoft Windows
- BioEx Systems Exercise Pro
- Summit Software CarePoint
- Knees Software PT DocTools
- Client caseload management software
- Eazy Application Systems QuickEMR
- dBASE
- Scheduling software
- Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite
- SpectraSoft DocuPRO
- Accounting software