Practice Areas in Physical Therapy
Physical therapist practice areas
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- PTs who work in this area are experts in the evaluation and treatment of those with medically complex conditions.
- Physical therapists who practice in this area utilize buoyancy, accommodative resistance and support to enhance interventions
- Physical therapists who practice in this area treat pelvic floor disorders, pain and incontinence in women and men.
- Physical therapists practicing in this area travel to the patients to provide rehabilitative services to patients of all ages.
- Physical therapists who practice in this area provide services to individuals of all ages with the goal of improving function and overall ability to participate in personal roles and activities that are important to the individual.
- Practice in this area focuses on prevention, evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, and performance enhancement of the physically active individual.
- This is a rapidly growing specialty area focused on optimizing aging.
- Physical therapists practicing in this area provide health, wellness, prevention and rehabilitation services in a variety of practice settings to individuals of all ages with systemic problems.
- Physical therapists practicing in this area are experts in the assessment of movement and can help individuals move better, often with less pain, through skilled manual therapy, therapeutic exercise and patient education.
- Practice in this area involves promoting activity and participation in everyday routines, increasing functional independence, enhancing learning opportunities, improving strength and endurance, facilitating motor development and mobility, and easing the challenges of daily caregiving.
- Practice in this area occurs in a variety of practice settings and involves helping patients undergoing medical treatment maintain/gain strength, flexibility, and endurance and maximizing function.
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