A Physical Therapist will serve their patients in helping them to
relieve pain, improve their mobility, and help to prevent any permanent
physical damage that may cause disability.
Patients
of a Physical Therapy may include people who suffer from severe back
pain, shoulder pain, fractures, heart disease, arthritis, and head
injuries, to name a few. Sometimes, the work of a physical therapist can
be physically demanding as they may have to help move patients and help
them make certain body movements during therapy. Besides helping move
their patients, in Physical Therapy a therapist may also have to move
around heavy equipment sometimes.
Physical Therapy have access to
their patients medical histories and will examine them so that they can
test their patients strength and muscle performance, range of motion,
balance, posture and so on. For instance, if a patient has a rotary cuff
injury, they will have a hard time raising their arm straight up. The
physical Therapy will continually test that patient to see if
improvements are made as treatment goes on. Their goal here is to get
their patient to raise their arm without pain and to reach that point,
the Physical Therapy will have to develop a strategy and a plan to get
the healthy outcome that he/she and the patient desire.