• Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical therapy treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
• Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
• Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
• Orthopedics, Neurology Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.
• An exercise treatment for patients who have been immobilized or impaired in their movement and flexibility
• Physical therapists help people manage pain and improve movement problems. Some pain and movement problems can become chronic and lead to surgery. Physical therapy helps to reduce the symptoms of many chronic diseases and conditions. It also can keep many problems from getting.
• Review physician's referral and patient's medical records to help determine diagnosis and physical therapy treatment required.
• Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.
• Administers physical therapy treatments by giving massages, manual therapy, strengthening and stretching exercise, applying physical agents like moist packs, TENS, electric stimulation, and ultrasound machines; directing treatments given by aides, technicians, and assistants.
• Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.
• Inform patients and refer to appropriate practitioners when diagnosis reveals findings outside physical therapy.
• Discharge patient from physical therapy when goals or projected outcomes have been attained and provide for appropriate follow-up care or referrals.
• Advising the patient and family about in-home treatment options and exercises

Maintains patient confidence and protects medical record by keeping information confidential.