| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Physical Therapist |
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
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- Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.
- 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.
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| Physical Therapist Aide |
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
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- Record treatment given and equipment used.
- Clean and organize work area and disinfect equipment after treatment.
- Arrange treatment supplies to keep them in order.
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| Physical Therapist |
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
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- Administer active and passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, aquatic physical therapy, and heat, light, sound, and electrical modality treatments, such as ultrasound.
- Instruct, motivate, safeguard and assist patients as they practice exercises and functional activities.
- Train patients in the use of orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices.
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