Description
Diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.
Interests
- Investigative
- Social
- Realistic
Work Values
- Achievement
- Recognition
- Independence
Work Styles
- Integrity
- Attention to Detail
- Concern for Others
- Persistence
- Self-Control
Tasks
- Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes.
- Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
- Assess characteristics of patients' pain, such as intensity, location, or duration, using standardized clinical measures.
- Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
- Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions, such as medication or spinal injections.
Work Activities
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Documenting/Recording Information
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
Detailed Work Activities
- Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Technology Skills
- Medical software
- Electronic mail software
- Word processing software
Abilities
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Oral Expression
- Problem Sensitivity
- Oral Comprehension
Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Social Perceptiveness
- Speaking
Knowledge
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Psychology
- Biology
- Therapy and Counseling
- Education and Training
Most Common Education Level
The “Most Common Education Level” refers to the level of education held by the majority of workers in a given occupation. For example, if the highest percentage of workers in a role have an Associate’s Degree, that suggests this is the typical educational requirement. Knowing this helps you plan how many years of education you may need to pursue that career.
Certificates
Certifying Organization
American Osteopathic Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Certification in Physical Medicine & RehabilitationCertifying Organization
American Osteopathic Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Type
Core
Certificate name
Certification in Addiction Medicine SubspecialtyCertifying Organization
American Board of Preventive Medicine
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Certification in Sports MedicineCertifying Organization
American Osteopathic Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Type
Core
Certificate name
Certification in Addiction MedicineCertifying Organization
American Board of Preventive Medicine
Type
Specialty
Income Percentile
The income percentiles show how earnings are distributed within a profession. The 10th percentile means that 10% of workers earned less than that amount. The median (50th percentile) indicates that half of workers earned more, and half earned less. The 90th percentile reflects what the top 10% of earners in the field make.
| Income Percentile | Annual Income |
|---|---|
| Low (10%) | $139,322 |
| Median (50%) | $237,545 |
| High (90%) | $338,771 |
Income by Experience
This table shows how income typically grows with experience—from entry level (0–2 years), to mid-level (3–5 years), to senior level (6–8 years), to expert level (8+ years).
| Experience | Income |
|---|---|
Entry Level  | N/A |
| Mid Level | N/A |
| Senior Level | N/A |
| Expert Level | N/A |
Employability
There are currently 337,000 jobs in this career path. Over the next 10 years, that number is expected to increase to 350,100 positions, reflecting a projected growth of 4%.
The Projected Job Growth figure refers to the expected increase or decrease in employment within a specific career field over a certain period of time.
Projected Job Growth of 4%
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