By David Renko

Description• Treat patients who have or had disabilities.• Disabilities could be disease, injury, or loss

or a body part.• Goal is to try to give the patient a relief of

the pain or stress they are having in a specific body part.

• Or Physical Therapists try to strengthen the body part so they could essentially return to their normal or everyday lives.

Duties and Responsibilities

• For every patient, Physical Therapists need to record info about the patients.

• They need to evaluate the status of the patients recovery to understand the speed at which there bodies recovery rate.

• Giving the patients an exercise schedule to help there recovery time improve.

• Performing tests on patients.

Earnings and Advancement• Average earning is $60,000+.

• Some Physical Therapists may receive paid vacations, sick days and holidays as well.

• Many also receive life insurance as well as health insurance.

• All these benefits are based on how long they have been working and position type.

Employment & Job Availability

• There were about 186,000 Physical Therapists nationally 2008.

• There is supposed to be a 20 percent increase in Physical Therapists by 2016.

HS Courses and Required Education

• Some suggested HS courses are Geometry, Biology, Science, English, Chemistry, Physical Education, Physics and Trigonometry.

• You need to have at least your Bachelors degree.

Colleges• Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY

• Duke University in Durham, NC

• Miami University in Coral Gables, FL

Additional Facts

• Often referred to massage therapy.

• Most patients that need Physical Therapy have lower back pains.

Works Cited• PT, and MAInventor of The RIPPS® Balance

Method. "PhysicalTherapist.com." PhysicalTherapist.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2012. <http://www.physicaltherapist.com/>.

• "Physical Therapists ." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2012. <http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos080.htm>.

• "Physical Therapy." Physical Therapists. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Mar. 2012. <physicaltherapyschoolsinfo.org/>.

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