| If you are interested in physical therapy jobs in a | | | | muscle performance, and motor function. The therapist |
| hospital setting, then be ready to provide trauma | | | | will check a person's ability to become independent |
| intervention or post-surgery rehabilitation. Most likely, | | | | back at home or in the workplace. Once a patient is |
| you will provide inpatient and outpatient care, seeing | | | | examined, they will develop a specific treatment plan |
| people of all ages. Injuries will vary in severity, but | | | | and strategy to help the patient recover and get to the |
| every patient is important and needs complete | | | | anticipated outcome. As time goes on, everything will |
| attention. | | | | documented and there will be periodic examinations. |
| A physical therapist helps a person recovery from | | | | Sometimes treatments will be modified, but |
| heart surgery or hip surgery. They will help a person | | | | documentation helps track a patient's progress. |
| relearn functions, which will vary according to the injury, | | | | It's not always easy to be a physical therapist, as |
| disability, or limitations. In a hospital, most physical | | | | some physical therapy jobs are harder than others. |
| therapists work with neurology or orthopedic patients. | | | | Sometimes it's because patients aren't cooperative or |
| This means you have to work closely with doctors | | | | willing to follow instructions. It isn't easy to help |
| and nurses as a part of a team, especially since the | | | | someone who has experienced a traumatic injury, as |
| goal is to have the patient recovering to his or her | | | | there can be emotional struggles as well. A therapist |
| fullest function. | | | | has to be gentle, but tough. In a way, you're a lot like a |
| A physical therapist will examine a patient's medical | | | | coach, and you have to figure out the best method to |
| history, while testing and measuring strength, balance | | | | help your patients get better. |
| and coordination, range or motion, posture, respiration, | | | | |