APTA Guide to Physical Therapist Practice Results
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The APTA Guide to Physical Therapist Practice has been divided into chapters to help users find specific content. Between content areas within each chapter you will see teal-colored headings that indicate more information for those who want to take a deeper dive into the topic. Click on the plus sign
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The Guide is the description of physical therapist practice for use by physical therapist and physical therapist assistant educators, students, and clinicians
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By selecting and using the appropriate standardized outcome measures to quantify the individual's status throughout an episode of care, the physical therapist is able to demonstrate the value of physical therapy in helping individuals achieve their identified goals.
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PTs engage in an examination process that includes taking the individual's history, conducting a standardized systems review, and performing selected tests and measures to identify potential and existing movement-related disorders.
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Intervention is an integral element of physical therapy that may occur at multiple points during examination and evaluation as well as after the physical therapist has determined the diagnosis, prognosis, and plan of care.
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Therapeutic exercise is the systematic performance or execution of planned physical movements or activities intended to enable the patient or client to remediate or prevent impairments of body functions and structures, enhance activities and participation, reduce risk, optimize overall health, and enhance
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Motor function/movement training is the performance of structured and sequenced training activities and motoric drills designed to develop and enhance task-specific voluntary movement, with special emphasis on the person-environment interface, and to improve control over the multisystem mechanisms essential
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Functional training in self-care and domestic life integration and reintegration is the education and training of individuals to improve their ability to perform physical actions, tasks, and activities in an efficient, typically expected, or competent manner.
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Biophysical agents are a broad group of agents that use various forms of energy and are intended to assist muscle force generation and contraction. . .
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Patient or client instruction is the process of informing, educating, or training patients or clients, families, significant others, and caregivers with the intent to promote and optimize the physical therapist episode of care.