OT vs PT
This therapy focuses on improving mobility, strength, and reducing pain through exercise and manual techniques.
What is Physical Therapy?
This person designs and fits artificial limbs to replicate the form and function of the missing body part.
What is a Prosthetist?
What degree is an athletic trainer required to receive?
What is a Master in Athletic Training?
Your patient is a child with autism spectrum disorder who has difficulty forming words and struggles to interact socially with peers
What is a SLP?
This therapy emphasizes helping patients with activities of daily living, such as dressing and cooking
What is Occupational Therapy?
This person is a medical professional who specializes in
evaluating and treating hearing disorders, hearing loss, and balance disorders
What is an audiologist?
This medical professional
specializes in problems with feet/lower legs
(including performing surgery)
What is a podiatrist?
Your patient is a runner who is experiencing chronic shin splints, and their gait needs to be evaluated for biomechanical inefficiencies.
What is a Physical Therapist?
What are some common places that both an OT and PT can work at?
What is outpatient, in-patient, skilled nursing facility, and home health?
This person serves the community by
promoting health habits and behaviors as well as
implementing programs that advocate for those
with limited health services
What is a Public Health Worker?
What degree does a Respiratory Therapist require?
What is an associate or bachelors degree in respiratory therapy
Your patient is recovering from a traumatic brain injury and struggles with problem-solving and fine motor skills needed to prepare meals.
What is an Occupational Therapist?
A patient is being taught how to use a reacher, sock aid, and grab bars to safely maintain independence after hip surgery. This therapist would handle that training
What is an Occupational Therapist?
This person must find potential buyers, teach people how to use the products, fit products to patients, answer any questions about specific equipment
What is a durable medical equipment sales representative?
What is the difference between a personal trainer and a physical therapist?
What is, a physical therapist requires a doctorate to practice?
Your patient is a collegiate soccer player who is recovering from a concussion and needs guidance on safely returning to sport-specific activity.
What is an Athletic Trainer?
After a total knee replacement, this therapist focuses on restoring normal joint range of motion, weight-bearing capacity, and ambulation
What is a Physical Therapist?
This person treats patients with musculoskeletal problems, such as pain in the neck, lower back, or joints, using a variety of hands-on and non-invasive techniques such a manipulation
What is a Chiropractor?
What does it mean to be Board Certified?
What is, they have completed additional years of training and education in their chosen specialty and passed a written, oral, practical, or simulator-based exam?
Your patient just had a stroke and they are struggling with swallowing their food and using their right hand to feed themselves, who should you call for help?
What is a SLP and an Occupational Therapist?