The job description of a physical therapist requires you to be working towards restoration as well as the maintenance of the general health of a person. On a general day at the office of a physical therapist technician, the following major activities would have to be performed by him.
1. The preparation and design of a suitable treatment plan for a particular patient. Such a treatment plan would include a particular treatment strategy, a plan of action's intent as well as the intended outcome of the plan.
2. Give diagnostic suggestions as well as opinions to patients about their ability to get back into a community or a workplace after the injury or defect with them has been properly cured.
3. To test and provide an accurate estimate of a patient's strength, mobility as well as other locomotive and physiological functions. These estimations would prove helpful for the further diagnosis of the condition of the patient as well as the correct estimation of the further course of action for the course of recovery of the patient.
Physical therapist technician jobs are much in demand for various domains of medical operations and even of late in luxury hotels where they are required to treat people of all ages. Thus it is imperative for the physical therapist technicians to have good people skills as well as soft skills. As a physical therapist, one must be able to put all his or her medical and diagnostic knowledge to test and to perform effective diagnosis of the conditions of a patient suffering from any kind of disability or defect.
A degree course at the graduate level is imperative to ace as a physical therapist. Such a degree course can be in any of the fields of physical therapy, and can be suitably followed by a master's or a doctoral degree at the post graduate level. The subjects or domains of working which are concentrated in such a degree course include subjects like chemistry, biology, and physics in general. If you go on to study into specializations, there are subjects like examination techniques, human growth, therapeutic procedures and manifestations of disease to be studied.
However a suitable degree is not the only thing that is enough to practice as a physical therapist. In order to get into the groove of professional practicing, a suitable national or state level licensing exam has to be passed by the applicant. In order to continue with their licenses, there are many jurisdictions at the state as well as national level for the applicants to take licensing training programs, classes as well as workshop, prior to which they are required to give renewal exams to renew their licenses.
Earnings and Remunerations
The following is a list of earnings as well as the salaries of a physical therapist technician employed in various domains of professional working.
Offices of physicians: $65,900
Nursing care facilities: $68,650
Home health care services: $70,920
General medical and surgical hospitals: $66,630
Offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists, and audiologists: $65,150
The salaries of physical therapist technicians may vary from one place of occupation to another, and this is just an average estimate presented for the same. It is estimated that the total number of jobs for physical therapist technicians in different domains of working would grow beyond the average figure till the year 2016.
The year 2006 saw more than two millions jobs being held by physical therapist technicians in the United States of America alone. Out of these, there were many physical therapist technicians who held more than two jobs each, which actually makes the figure much more towering. Hospitals and health centers are amongst the top places which employed the services of these various physical therapists. There are also quite a number of luxury hotels and resorts that employ the services of a physical therapist technician for managing their spas or fitness centers.
