Physical Therapist

No automatable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as durable (90%).

• Document treatment notes
• Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.

• Provide educational information about physical therapy or physical therapists, injury prevention, ergonomics, or ways to promote health.
• Provide information to the patient about the proposed intervention, its material risks and expected benefits, and any reasonable alternatives.
• Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
• Design therapy plans
• Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
• Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.
• Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
• Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.
• Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
• Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
• Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
• Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
• Motivate and coach patients
• Deliver hands-on therapy
• Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.
• Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
• Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
• Inform patients and refer to appropriate practitioners when diagnosis reveals findings outside physical therapy.