Occupational Employment Statistics
29-1123 Physical Therapists
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.
Southeast Minnesota
| 540 | 196 | $41.74/hr | $33.03/hr | $36.49/hr | $42.22/hr | $47.20/hr | $50.20/hr |
Professional and Business Services | 130 | $43.45/hr |
Education and Health Services | 4,500 | $40.98/hr |
Public Administration | 50 | $43.26/hr |
- 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.
- Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
- Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
- Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
- Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
- Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.
- Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.
- Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
- Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.