The only individuals who provide selected physical therapy interventions under the direction and supervision of the physical therapist (Guide to Physical Therapist Practice).
What is Physical Therapist Assistants?
100
To become Doctors of physical therapy, First choice practitioners, and Directly accessible to consumers.
What is Vision 2020?
100
Area of specialization where Physical Therapists work with infants and adolescents (age 0-22).
What is Pediatrics?
100
Level of supervision when PT is NOT required to be on-site for direct supervision but by telephone at all times. This is the type of supervision PTA’s will have from PT’s.
What is General Supervision?
100
The APTA has this many chapters.
What is 52 chapters.
200
A healthcare profession that promotes optimal health through restoration of movement and function.
What is the definition of Physical Therapy?
200
The most famous patient who received Physical Therapy.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
200
Area of specialization for Physical Therapists with the primary focus on the Musculoskeletal system.
What is Orthopedic Physical Therapy?
200
The communication device that the Physical Therapist Assistant can use at any time to reach the Physical Therapist.
What is the telephone?
200
The physical therapist assistant in most states can work under this level of supervision.
What is general supervision?
300
Female who started the American Women’s Physical Therapeutic Association in 1921.
Who is Mary McMillan.
300
This person used electrical stimulation with torpedo fish poultices.
Who is Hippocrates?
300
Specialization in Physical Therapy when the patient usually struggles with endurance of activities in daily life.
What is Cardiovascular and Pulmonary?
300
Many educated people working together as a unit to help the patient with the rehabilitation goals: Ex. nurses, primary care physicians, physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, etc).
What is the Rehabilitation Team?
300
This is the highest level of policy making body in the APTA?
What is the House of Delgates?
400
Country where the first form of Physical Therapy was used in the form of therapeutic exercise, massage, hydrotherapy in 3000 BC.
What is China?
400
A Physical Therapist Assistant must Respect, be Trustworthy and compassionate, make Sound decisions, have Integrity and Fulfill legal and ethical obligations.
What is the Values and Culture of Physical Therapy?
400
A type of facility that provides long term care for those requiring a stay of longer than 60 days.
What is a Chronic Care Facility?
400
The sole extender of the Physical Therapist and also supervised by the Physical Therapist
What is the Physical Therapist Assistant?
400
This is the only person that can make modification to the treatment plan.
What is the physical therapist?
500
Association training 200 young women in what is now known as “physical therapy”.
What is the American Women's Physical Therapeutic Association (AWPT)?
500
The year APA became APTA.
What is 1956?
500
Type of care when patients must be considered to be home bound (unable to leave without assistance of another or extreme difficulty with mobility).
What is Home Health Care?
500
Member of the treatment team that develops the treatment plan, initial examination, evaluation, diagnosis, and prognosis.