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