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Assist physical therapists in providing physical therapy treatments and procedures. May, in accordance with State laws, assist in the development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, document the progress of treatment, and modify specific treatments in accordance with patient status and within the scope of treatment plans established by a physical therapist. Generally requires formal training.
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Above-the-knee prosthetics
Accounting software
Ankle-foot orthotics
Arena Health Systems Phys-X
Arm prosthetics
Automated external defibrillators AED
Back braces
Balance beams
Balance boards
Beaver Creek Software The THERAPIST
Below-the-knee prosthetics
Billing software
BioEx Systems Exercise Pro
Blood pressure cuffs
Body-fat calipers
Bookkeeping software
Cardiac monitors
Cervical traction equipment
Client caseload management software
Cold packs
Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
Crutches
dBASE
Desktop computers
Digital cameras
Digital video cameras
Eazy Application Systems QuickEMR
Electromyographs EMG
Email software
Ergometers
Exercise trampolines
FileMaker Pro
Free weights
Front-wheel walkers
Functional electrical stimulation FES equipment
Gait belts
Goniometers
Hand grips
Hemi walkers
Hi-lo manipulation tables
High-voltage Galvanic stimulation machines
Hoyer lifts
Hydrotherapy pools
Inclinometers
Interferential electrical stimulation machines
Intermittent compression units
Iontopheresis equipment
Knee braces
Knees Software PT DocTools
Laboratory information system LIS
Lavage hydrotherapy equipment
Lower-body isokinetic machines
Massage equipment
Mechanical percussors
Mechanical stethoscopes
Medical nasal cannulae
Medicine balls
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Windows
Muscle strength dynamometers
Notebook computers
Paraffin baths
Parallel bars
Patient positioning devices
Pelvic traction equipment
Personal computers
PhysioTools Tools RG
Pick-up walkers
Platform walkers
Plumb lines
Portable oxygen equipment
Posture grids
Powder boards
Protective gowns
Pulse oximeters
Quad canes
Reachers
Reciprocating walkers
Reflex hammers
Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite
Resistive exercise bands
Rotating bed
Sacro-illiac joint lumbar corsets
Safety gloves
Safety goggles
Scheduling software
Sequential compression devices
Short wave diathermy devices
Single point canes
Sliding boards
Slings
SpectraSoft AppointmentsPRO
SpectraSoft DocuPRO
Splints
Spreadsheet software
Standing cages
Standing tables
Stationary bicycles
Stretchers
Summit Software CarePoint
Surgical masks
Swiss exercise balls
Tablet computers
Therapeutic hot packs
Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
TherAssist
Tilt tables
Total lift chairs
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Ultrasound machines
Ultraviolet UV phototherapy lamps
Upper-body isokinetic machines
Video game software
Virtual reality game software
Wheelchairs
Whirlpool therapy baths
Word processing software
Wrist splints
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