Let 's get Physical....Therapy What does an individual do if he injures his body or is ill and it does not get better over time? Go to rehabilitation, of course! That is, rehabilitation for the body! These rehabilitation specialists are physical therapists or, as they are sometimes called, “PTs”. A physical therapist is a person who helps the injured manage their pain and improve their movement. A physical therapist is an individual who goes through a certain amount and type of schooling to obtain
As a physical therapist, I will embody APTA’s vision by providing quality, client-centered therapy geared toward improving each patient’s life by enhancing his or her movement capabilities. Limited or painful movement can create a multitude of issues for a person, and my goal is to allay each of these when treating patients. To provide the best care possible, I will be perceptive of clients’ needs as well as individual traits and always have the patient’s best interest in mind. Restoring and improving
The Core Documents of Physical Therapy are a group of documents that are designed to help provide structure to what it means to be a Physical Therapist. They consist of our Core Values, Ethics, Scope of Practice, Guide for Professional Conduct, Standards of Practice, State Practice Acts, as well as a Vision Statement for what the profession is about. These documents help to guide us as therapists through ethical and professional dilemmas that we may face in the workplace. They are also designed to
The two professional values from the Core Values of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) that best correlate with my personal values are compassion/caring and integrity. Personally, I believe that compassion/caring should be the most important value for physical therapists. Many of our patients will be overcoming an adversity and it is important that physical therapists can sympathize and show concern for their suffering. Compassion is not only a feeling but also works to promote action;
People have created a hectic and busy world, that includes careers and daily activities that require physical activity. While attempting to attain the required physical conditioning, people often take chances with their personal health as they try to stretch their physical limits. Sometimes, people can surpass their current limits and form new boundaries; however, other times people are not so fortunate. These unfortunate times often lead to injury, including workplace accidents, sporting incidents
that changed my outlook on physical therapy was my grandmother’s knee surgeries. She had trouble with her knees so she had both knees replaced and was excited to walk freely again. But the surgeries left her immobile and in pain as she could no longer live on her own and was forced to move in with my family. She became depressed because she couldn’t move as she usually did her whole life and was unable to contribute anything to our household. We took her to physical therapy and it changed her life.
Department of Rehab at St John of God, has a PhD in Physical Therapy from the Azusa Pacific University with a Neuro Specialty in Rehabilitation. He answered some questions regarding his profession and the services the Department offers to its residents. What did inspire you to be a Physical Therapist? I really wanted to help patients in a different way. As a doctor you can help people through different methods like medication and surgeries, but as a Physical Therapist you can help your patients without
service Physical Therapy company that provides many different types of physical therapy to our clients. Our physical therapists are the best and most educated in the state. Our physical therapists are also very experience, some of them even work in other counties. EverNew makes sure that our clients come first, they will always know what we are doing 100%. In our facility we two types of physical therapy: physical therapy and aquatic therapy. Since we have these two specific types of physical therapy
Sammak Ms. Krikava Literature & Rhetoric - 6th Period 4/6/17 Introduction The Basics of this Career As a physical therapist your job is to: Make people's physical function better or restore it using physical therapy. Recording information and applying it new knowledge to your job. You have a responsibility for others health and safety. The average earning for a physical is around: $84,020 per year $40.40 per hour Typical Hours'Schedule: Around 8A.M. - 5P.M. Around 6A.M. - 2P.M.
Ethics in Physical Therapy One of the most rapidly growing occupations in the United States today is Physical Therapy. The United States Department of Labor has projected 23,000 unfilled physical therapist positions in the year 2000 and a lack of qualified physical therapists to fill them (www.apta.org). While Physical Therapy grows rapidly, questions of ethics in this field have also grown in large quantities. Physical therapy is the treatment of disease through physical means, including