Smith-Physical+Therapist

= Physical Therapist = Physical therapists (PTs) help patients, including accident victims and individuals with disabling conditions such as [|low-back pain], [|arthritis], [|heart disease], fractures, head injuries, and cerebral palsy, by providing services that restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities. They restore, maintain, and promote overall fitness and health.

= The classes in college I may need to take are.... **// Medicine and Dentistry //** - Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures. **// Therapy and Counseling //** - Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance. **//Customer and Personal Service//** - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. **//Education and Training//** - Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. **// English Language //** - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. =

= Some of the activities physical therapists do are perform an initial exam, evaluate data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis before treating.Plan, prepare and carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment. Record the patient's treatment and progress in patient's chart.Administer manual exercises and increase patient strength.Study the effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve your goal for the patient.Instruct patient in procedures to be continued at home.Converse with the patient and medical practitioners to plan, implement and assess the treatment program.Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required = . = The average salary for a physical threrapists is......$55,070. =

= = == = This is the campus at unversity of Georgia!! = = I hope to attend college here. Go dawgs!!! = = To work as a physical therapist, one must first graduate from a physical therapist [|educational program] with a [|master's degree]. Coursework includes [|biology], [|chemistry], and [|physics], as well as specialized courses such as neuroanatomy, human growth and development .=