1.
Mary Isaacson

2.
Background
• What is RehabTherapy?
• Factors that affect outcomes
Work Setting
Salary/Percentage of PTAs in Setting
Patient Types
Treatments/Techniques
Advanced Skills/Training/Recognition
objectives

3.
Rehabilitation is for a person recovering from an illness,
surgery, or serious injury. Rehab helps individuals to find
new ways of doing activities/functions, relearn skills, or
regain their strength.
It is important to start rehab as soon as possible to
maintain or increase the patient’s chances of attaining the
previous level of function.The purpose of rehab is to gain
back the function that was lost.
A rehab PTA helps individuals with mobility, strength, and
fitness.
background: what is rehab?

4.
The outcome of rehab depends on the following factors:
• Sufficient supervision daily
• Individual’s commitment and motivation
• Limitation-what it is and extent of it
background: outcomes

5.
Special Rehabilitation Units
• Rehabilitation Hospital
• Sub-Acute Hospital
Outpatient
Home-based
Nursing Facilities
Private Offices
work setting

6.
Salary depends on position, geographic location, years of
experience, practice setting, and the degree of education.
• $48,000 on average per year
Salary According to Experience:
• $38,500-$55,000
About 5% of PTAs work in rehabilitation services.
salary
percentage of PTAs in rehab

7.
Age Group
Infants: 0.6%
Toddlers: 0.7%
Children: 2.7%
Adolescents: 3.0%
Adults: 39.3%
Older Persons: 53.6%
Systems
Musculoskeletal: 30.4%
Neuromuscular: 56.7%
Integumentary: 3.2%
Cardiopulmonary: 9.7%
Condition
Stroke: 20.1%
Joint Replacement: 11.6%
Traumatic Brain Injury: 10.0%
patient types

8.
Assistive devices
• Eating
• Food preparation
• Washing/Personal Hygiene
• Dressing
Tissue manipulation
Exercises
Electrical stimulation
• Functional electrical
stimulation
• TENS [Transcutaneous
Electrical Nerve
Stimulation]
Thermal approaches
• Ultrasound
• Hydrotherapy
• Hot/Cold packs
treatments/techniques

9.
PTAs can specialize in different areas of rehabilitation
such as training in e.g. aquatics or having advanced skills
with e.g. stroke patients.
PTAs can apply to be recognized in a specialized area of
physical therapy.There is an application process with
minimum requirements.
advanced skills/training/recognition

10.
rehabilitation

11.
http://www.apta.org
http://www.paincenter.stanford.edu
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/rehabilitation.html
http://www.healthinaging.org/agingintheknow/chapters_
ch_trial.asp?ch=13
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/stroke/poststrokereh
ab.htm
http://www.helenhayeshospital.org
http://www.traumaticbraininjuryatoz.org
references