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AI for Physical Therapists

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.

Physical Therapists · O*NET 29-1123.00 · Job Zone 5 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

8 of 20tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

14 matched to the tools physical therapists use. Showing 14.

The tools this job actually uses

20 documented for this occupation. Showing 20, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • eClinicalWorks EHR softwarehot
  • MEDITECH softwarehot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Advantage Software Physical Therapy Advantage
  • Biometrics video game software
  • Cedaron Dexter Evaluation & Impairment Rating
  • Clinicient Insight
  • Exercise routine creation software
  • Hands On Technology TheraWriter.PT
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Medical procedure coding software
  • MediGraph
  • Patient charting software
  • Prognosis Innovation Healthcare ChartAccess
  • Recordkeeping software
  • Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite
  • SpectraSoft AppointmentsCS

What this job involves

24 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
  2. Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
  3. Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
  4. Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.
  5. Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
  6. Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.
  7. Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
  8. Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.
  9. Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
  10. Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.
  11. Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
  12. Identify and document goals, anticipated progress, and plans for reevaluation.
  13. Provide information to the patient about the proposed intervention, its material risks and expected benefits, and any reasonable alternatives.
  14. Provide educational information about physical therapy or physical therapists, injury prevention, ergonomics, or ways to promote health.
  15. Inform patients and refer to appropriate practitioners when diagnosis reveals findings outside physical therapy.
  16. Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
  17. Administer treatment involving application of physical agents, using equipment, moist packs, ultraviolet or infrared lamps, or ultrasound machines.
  18. Refer clients to community resources or services.
  19. Construct, maintain, or repair medical supportive devices.
  20. Evaluate, fit, or adjust prosthetic or orthotic devices or recommend modification to orthotist.
  21. Teach physical therapy students or those in other health professions.
  22. Conduct or support research and apply research findings to practice.
  23. Participate in community or community agency activities or help to formulate public policy.
  24. Direct group rehabilitation activities.
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