This is one more video in the series dealing with next churches used in physical therapy. As a physical therapy assistant you’ll be learning all the various neck stretches that you will be using in treating patients.
These are obviously stretches you will teach your patient to do at home in dealing with tension and neck pain. In this group of exercises you will be demonstrating the proper techniques to use to relieve tension as well as relieve neck tightness and pain. So check out the video below with the viewpoint of view being the demonstrator.
A short video outlining neck stretches used in physical therapy. A physical therapy assistant would utilize this technique in treating neck pain as well as vertigo.
This would be you treating a patient once you complete a physical therapy assistant program. Simple techniques like these are administered by a physical therapy assistant to help a patient with neck pain or vertigo.
You would be learning how to administer these techniques when you attend a physical therapy assistant program at a college or community college.
Just from this little video you can see that you will need to educate your patient as well as get them to follow your directions in the exercise is to be performed. So as you can see good communication skills are a must! You will also need to spot incorrect technique and correct it.
As you work with patients in your clinical training you will become more and more comfortable in developing a good rapport with your patient. So check out the video below keeping in mind that you will be treating the patient.
This week we will be looking at treating vertigo with physical therapy. So if you are looking to enroll in one of the physical therapy assistant programs available you will be learning some of the techniques outlined in the videos dealing with the use of physical therapy in treating vertigo.
As you see in the video vertigo may have various different causes. Depending upon the cause treatments can vary. When watching the video remember that you will be the one doing the evaluation or administering the therapy. So this will be you. These videos really give you a good idea of what you would be doing as a physical therapy assistant.
If you cannot imagine performing the tasks in the videos on this site you should choose a different career. If, on the other hand, you can easily see yourself doing the things outlined in the videos on this website you should probably consider attending a physical therapy assistant program.
There are even various community colleges that offer physical therapy assistant programs. These are associate degrees and are only two years in length. As the median physical therapy assistant salary is above $48,000 a year it really makes sense to look into this career.
So check out the video below for a little more information on what it would be like to be a physical therapy assistant.
In this video you will see some new technology being utilized for a stroke victim. As seeing what recent videos you, as a physical therapy assistant, will be able to help people who have suffered from all manner of accidents, injuries, and diseases.
As you can see new technologies have been developed for stroke victims. I am sure you can imagine other areas where this technology can be used. You will be entering a living and growing science once you enroll in a physical therapy assistant program. New mechanical designs combined with ever advancing electronics make this science extremely interesting as well as more and more useful to patients!
Once you complete a physical therapy assistant program you will be entering into a world where the science is changing daily. Wherever you choose to work you will find new technologies being utilized. Needless to say this subject requires ongoing lifetime education.
So check out the video below and see how you can help your patients who have suffered from a stroke become mobile once more.
Cerebral Palsy is probably one of the major subjects dealt with in pediatric physical therapy. If you are looking to specialize as a pediatric physical therapy assistant cerebral palsy will probably be a part of your practice.
Below is a great video showing a physical therapist working with a group of cerebral palsy kids. This is certainly an area that is available to a physical therapy assistant upon graduation. It can be a very rewarding career!
So check out the video below and see if you would like to pursue this specialty. It can be very demanding but also very rewarding, see what you think.
Today we will look at a couple of videos dealing with the basics of physical therapy. Obviously if you are enrolled in a physical therapy assistant program you will learn the material covered in these videos.
This should give you a heads-up on the basics of physical therapy and what you’ll be doing as a physical therapy assistant.
So check out the first video below on some basics.
In the second video you will get a good idea as to the scope and range of different illnesses and injuries encompassed by your field. Just about every individual at one time or another should see a physical therapist.
As for physical therapy assistant will usually deliver the hands-on treatment you can say you will have a wide range of patients to choose from. So as you can see you should never be lacking in patients to treat.
So check out the video below to see how wide this field really is.
As I look into videos dealing with physical therapy I actually find that there seems to be whole areas of specialization. Obviously this will let the physical therapy assistant become a specialist in different areas. It would seem that pregnancy is such an area.
I am sure as you go through the physical therapy assistant program you are enrolled in the various terms in this video will become well-known. Remember my goal in posting this series of videos is to allow you the opportunity to get the feel for being a physical therapy assistant. So picture yourself addressing this pregnant woman and helping her with her lower back pain.
I would imagine that the physical therapy assistant salary for someone who specializes in pregnancy would go well above the average of $48,000 a year. From watching this video it seems as if you would be required to have a greater knowledge of how pregnancy affects the body than the average physical therapy assistant. So I would imagine that the pay would increase as well.
So check out the video below and then re-watch it from the point of view of it being you helping this pregnant woman.
Check out this video of a physical therapist dealing with lower back pain. Remember you can enroll in a physical therapy assistant program at a community college and these are two-year programs resulting in an associate degree. You will be learning the techniques outlined in this video. So if you are considering a new career or if you are still in high school you can become a physical therapy assistant and be dealing with patients like the person in this video.
By posting these videos are want to give prospective students an idea as to what a physical therapy assistant does. These videos give a great education as to what is involved in becoming a physical therapy assistant. You have different individuals working with patients in a simulated session. This is part of what you will be doing in your program at college. To me this is a great opportunity to see what is involved in a career before you enroll in it.
Once you are enrolled in a physical therapy assistant program come back to this website and pay attention to how different individuals interact with patients. You can develop your own unique style are possibly incorporating the best of what you find in various videos.
So be sure to bookmark this site as it is a handy tool as you move along in your career as a physical therapy assistant. So check out today’s video.
Today’s video again deals with a lower back. This time we are dealing with a bulging disc. As a physical therapy assistant you will probably be dealing with lower back problems quite often.
Remember if you get enrolled in a physical therapy assistant program you’ll be learning these techniques and working with the patient in the same manner as seen in the video. So let’s concentrate on how the guy in the video works with the patient. While watching the video pay attention to the interaction between the therapist and the patient. Also realize when you are dealing with a patient he or she will be in pain. So you will be coaxing the patient through the actions in the exercise.
So check out the video below putting yourself in the therapist place.
To start the week I found this video for helping lower back pain. Remember if you attend one of the physical therapy assistant programs that are available in all 50 states you would be putting a patient through these exercises.
In some of these videos you will see a physical therapist or a doctor of physical therapy working with the patient. In almost all instances if there is a physical therapy assistant available he or she will be working with the patient. The actual actions performed in these videos are what you’ll be learning as a physical therapy assistant. In actual fact you will probably become better at day-to-day interaction with the patient than the actual physical therapist. Just as you will find that a nurse draws blood better than a doctor you will find physical therapy assistants doing a better job working with patients and having them perform exercises, paraffin baths, electrical stimulation and all the other actions performed daily by physical therapy assistants. It all comes down to practice and repetition. As in nurse draws blood much more often than a doctor will she becomes much more proficient at doing it. The same holds true with the physical therapy assistant. So remember to picture yourself performing the tasks you see executed in the videos.
So check out today’s video and remember it will be you having the patient do these exercises.
