Schooling
This is the only school in BC to offer Physical Therapy training.
What is the University of British Columbia?
PTs in this area charge fee for service and generally see a variety of MSK injuries.
What is private practice?
What is PROM?
PTs assess this by either resisting movement or adding weights to a movement.
What is strength?
This is term you will commonly hear PTs use instead of 'walking'.
What is ambulation?
This is the level of university degree current students graduate with in physiotherapy.
What is a Masters degree?
PTs in this setting offer home visits, equipment and safety education to keep clients safe in their home.
What is community or IPT?
This designates that you need two people to help with moving a patient.
What is 2PA?
PTs in acute care use this technique to help clear sputum or secretions by inserting a tube down the trachea.
What is deep suctioning?
PTs are primary providers and no longer require this to provide therapy services.
What is a doctor/physician referral/order?
This is the number of national exams prospective PTs have to write to get their license in Canada.
What is 2?
Physiotherapists in this setting work with children.
What is pediatrics?
This is the acronym you will see after a PTs name to designate their education.
A PT would measure the presence of this using a 'hammer' on a tendon.
What are reflexes?
This medical term is when a PT uses a stethescope to listen to a patient's lungs.
What is auscultation?
Traditionally, PTs schooling was combined with this other healthcare profession in a dual training program.
What is Occupational Therapy?
PTs in this setting provide online therapy services to clients wherever they are located.
What is virtual rehab/telehealth?
This acronym can designate feather weight bearing or full weight bearing.
What is FWB?
This technique uses a reflective illusion of an affected limb in order to trick the brain into thinking movement has occurred without pain, or to create positive visual feedback of movement.
What is mirror therapy
This is the instument that PTs use to measure joint angles.
What is a goniometer?