This is the district that we are in according to the APTA.
What is the Eastern District?
100
After January 1st, 2015, patients in Michigan are no longer required to have this document to receive physical therapy.
What is a prescription or referral?
100
This insurance company is run by the government for those 65 years and older.
What is Medicare?
100
This specialty treats children with congenital and learning abnormalities or those with traumas.
What is a pediatric clinical specialist?
100
This individual works closely with PT and is very similar in scope but tends to focus on more Activities of Daily Living (ADL's).
What is an OT (occupational therapist)?
200
This organization advocates for PT’s, PTA’s, SPT’s, and SPTA’s in the State of Michigan.
What is the Michigan Physical Therapy Association?
200
This is the entry level degree for PT's at Oakland University.
What is a Doctor of Physical Therapy(DPT)?
200
The first day of PT usually consists of taking a history, tests and measures and is called this:
What is Examination or Evaluation?
200
This clinical specialty works with pain associated from bone, joint, ligament damage or dysfunction.
What is Orthopedics?
200
This is usually a medical doctor that performs joint replacements or fixes bone injuries.
What is an Orthopedic Surgeon?
300
There are this many districts in the Michigan Physical Therapy Association.
What are 4 districts?
300
According to the APTA, this paraprofessional, in addition to a Licensed Physical Therapist, are the only ones who should provide physical therapy services.
What is a PTA (physical therapy assistant)?
300
This government-issued insurance company is for low-income individuals.
What is Medicaid?
300
Diagnoses that this clinical specialist works with include:
-Stroke
-Traumatic Brain Injury
-Spinal Cord Injury
-Multiple Sclerosis
What is Neurology?
300
This professional is responsible for administering medications, overall coordination of care during the hospital stay, and communicating the patient needs to the doctor.
This is the number of PTAs that one physical therapist can supervise at any time in a clinic.
What is four?
400
This treatment is a form of deep heat that is applied by a wand and gel.
What is Ultrasound?
400
This clinical specialty works with the elderly and age-related dysfunctions.
What is Geriatrics?
400
This is usually a Master’s-level trained clinician who works with patients with difficulty talking, eating or swallowing.
What is a Speech and Language Pathologist?
500
This month is National Physical Therapy Month.
What is October?
500
This treatment is designed to stretch soft tissue around joints to increase their Range of Motion – often confused with a Chiropractic Treatment.
What is joint mobilization or manipulation?
500
This machine includes a belt that wraps around hips and ribs and is designed to separate the spine to decrease pain.
What is pelvic or lumbar traction?
500
This specific type of therapy specialty is focused on the treatment of athletes.
What is Sports Medicine?
500
This is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “an applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely".