Jobs / Healthcare / 29-1123.00
Physical Therapists
Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.
- US jobs
- 267,330
- Median wage
- $102,760 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of physical therapists?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Healthcare: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: MedAgentBench, 69.7% of tasks completed.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 8%Train others on health or medical topicsNot measured
- 8%Assist others to access additional services or resourcesNot measured
- 8%Maintain health or medical recordsNot measured
- 7%Develop patient or client care or treatment plansNot measured
- 7%Perform administrative or clerical activitiesNot measured
- 7%Administer therapeutic treatmentsNot measured
- 7%Explain medical information to patients or family membersNot measured
- 6%Analyze health or medical dataNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
- Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
- Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
- Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
- Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
- Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
- Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.
- Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
- Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.
- Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
- Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.
Other job titles for this occupation (23)
Acute Care PT (Acute Care Physical Therapist) · Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) · Home Care Physical Therapist (Home Care PT) · Inpatient Physical Therapist (Inpatient PT) · Outpatient Physical Therapist (Outpatient PT) · Pediatric Physical Therapist (Pediatric PT) · Registered Physical Therapist (RPT) · Therapist · Acute Physical Therapist (Acute PT) · Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapist (Cardiopulmonary PT) · Geriatric Physical Therapist (Geriatric PT) · Home Health Physical Therapist (Home Health PT) · Kinesiotherapist · LPT (Licensed Physical Therapist) · Orthopedic Physical Therapist (Orthopedic PT) · Outpatient Orthopedics Physical Therapist (Outpatient Ortho PT) · Outpatient Travel Physical Therapist (Outpatient Travel PT) · Physiotherapist · Pulmonary Physical Therapist (Pulmonary PT) · School Physical Therapist · Skilled Nursing Facility Physical Therapist (SNF PT) · Sports Physical Therapist (Sports PT) · Travel Physical Therapist (Travel PT)