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.
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Southwest Minnesota
| 190 | 21 | $43.20/hr | $36.56/hr | $38.39/hr | $41.29/hr | $48.88/hr | $52.53/hr |
| Professional and Business Services | N/A | N/A |
| Education and Health Services | 4,370 | $45.66/hr |
| Public Administration | 50 | $48.32/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.
- Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.
- Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
- Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
- Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
- Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
- Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
- Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.