No. It is a CNA or Housekeeping that do “clean up” work. Physical and Occupational therapists work with people who have had muscle or skeletal problems. They do things like teaching them how to walk properly, build muscular strength in both upper and lower body areas. No “dirty work” involved at all and most Community Colleges offer a 2 year program, but be prepared to take a lot of pre-requisites (Anatomy & Physiology, etc).
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Do Physical Therapist And Occupational Therapist Pretty Much Lvn’s? Doing A Lot Of Cleaning Up?
Jul 13
Your husband is a physical therapist and is contracted out to work in a business where his job is to rehab patients. One day you show up at his job to take him out for lunch and you walk into his office and he’s giving a younger girl a massage and has his hands inside of her pants rubbing her lower back and hips. This girl is an employee not a rehab patient. Then you overhear talk from other people that he works with that there may be a sexual harrasment suit filed against him because he has a problem keeping his hands to himself. What would you say to him, what would your reaction be? Please, serious replies only.
The project is you have to ask questions to the physical therapist. And she needs help. Can you give me at least 10 questions for her to ask the physical therapists? Thankyou very much.
I tore my ACL about a year ago.. I got the surgery about 2 months after injuring it and started physical therapy.. I only stuck with it for like 2 months and since then I haven’t really been exercising it at all..I stopped going to physical therapy because I couldn’t handle it anymore for personal reasons… [not trying to make excuses, but I had a lot of personal problems in my life and mental state and I couldn't handle being around people] I know I’m stupid… but now it’s a year later and my knee is weak and I can barely run.. sometimes it feels stronger than other times….I can walk fine but running and shifting my weight in certain ways feels dangerous because it feels like it’s going to tear again..
So my question is .. even though I haven’t been exercising my knee is it possible I can still rehab it back to relatively normal again? or is it too late? It kinda sucks to think I might never be able to run properly again in my life…and I will just die if it tears again and I have to go through surgery again!
I am curently going to school for physical therapy assistant. We have to do a field report on the field we are going into.. If I interview a PTA what questions should I ask for my report?
I would like to know if anyone has any good websites or information for me. My paper is on Physical therapy and Sports Rehab in general. I am with 4 other people on this paper, but they are doing it on injuries in sports. I thought I would do mine on this topic. So if anyone can tell me any good information on PT and Sports Rehab that would be great.
I no longer have pain with day to day activities, but I have severe cracking and instability, and bad pain if I do something like push-ups. I was told to do physical therapy exercises to help restructure and strengthen my shoulder.
How often should I be doing these exercises? Is there anything else I should do to help my recovery (it has been over a month with only little improvement)?
Thanks for the help.
I understand how to be a Physical Therapist but how would that merge into Sports Medicine?
Physical therapist with a seriously injured wrist. How can they still rehab patients? Would their be any serious changes with their work? How can they continue without canceling appointments referring them to another clinician?