How do they match: Physical Therapists

  • Acute Care PT
  • Acute Care Physical Therapist
  • Home Care PT
  • Home Care Physical Therapist

  • 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.

  • Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
  • Administer treatment involving application of physical agents, using equipment, moist packs, ultraviolet or infrared lamps, or ultrasound machines.
  • Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
  • Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
  • 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.
  • Provide educational information about physical therapy or physical therapists, injury prevention, ergonomics, or ways to promote health.

  • Design public or employee health programs.
  • Direct healthcare delivery programs.
  • Train patients, family members, or caregivers in techniques for managing disabilities or illnesses.