Physical Therapist Assistants
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Lower extremity prosthetic devices (Above-the-knee prosthetics)
- Orthotics or foot care products (Ankle-foot orthotics)
- Upper extremity prosthetic devices (Arm prosthetics)
- Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles (Automated external defibrillators AED)
- Back or lumbar or sacral orthopedic softgoods (Back braces)
- Balance beams or boards or bolsters or rockers for rehabilitation or therapy (Balance beams)
- Balance beams or boards or bolsters or rockers for rehabilitation or therapy (Balance boards)
- Lower extremity prosthetic devices (Below-the-knee prosthetics)
- Blood pressure cuff kits (Blood pressure cuffs)
- Skinfold calipers (Body-fat calipers)
- Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories (Cardiac monitors)
- Head or neck traction supplies (Cervical traction equipment)
- Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs (Cold packs)
- Continuous passive motion CPM devices or accessories (Continuous passive motion CPM equipment)
- Crutches or crutch accessories (Crutches)
- Desktop computers
- Digital cameras
- Digital camcorders or video cameras (Digital video cameras)
- Electromyography EMG units or accessories (Electromyography EMG biofeedback equipment)
- Work tables or stations or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Ergometers)
- Exercise trampolines
- Weights or sets or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Free weights)
- Walkers or rollators (Front-wheel walkers)
- Neuromuscular stimulators or kits (Functional electrical stimulation FES equipment)
- Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy (Gait belts)
- Goniometers
- Wrist exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy (Hand grips)
- Walkers or rollators (Hemi walkers)
- Mats or platforms for rehabilitation or therapy (Hi-lo manipulation tables)
- Galvanic or faradic stimulators (High-voltage Galvanic stimulation machines)
- Patient lifts or accessories (Hoyer lifts)
- Full body immersion hydrotherapy baths or tanks (Hydrotherapy pools)
- Physiological recorders (Inclinometers)
- Electrotherapy combination units (Interferential electrical stimulation machines)
- Vascular sequential compression devices or tubing (Intermittent compression units)
- Electrotherapy combination units (Iontopheresis equipment)
- Knee braces or hinged knee supports (Knee braces)
- Hydrotherapy bath or tank accessories (Lavage hydrotherapy equipment)
- Lower body resistance machines (Lower-body isokinetic machines)
- Electric vibrators for rehabilitation or therapy (Massage equipment)
- Chest percussors (Mechanical percussors)
- Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories (Mechanical stethoscopes)
- Medical nasal cannulae
- Therapeutic balls or accessories (Medicine balls)
- Notebook computers
- Therapeutic paraffin baths or accessories (Paraffin baths)
- Parallel bars for rehabilitation or therapy (Parallel bars)
- Positioning devices (Patient positioning devices)
- Pelvis or back traction supplies (Pelvic traction equipment)
- Personal computers
- Walkers or rollators (Pick-up walkers)
- Walkers or rollators (Platform walkers)
- Plumb bobs (Plumb lines)
- Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies (Portable oxygen equipment)
- Patient height rulers (Posture grids)
- Powder boards for rehabilitation or therapy (Powder boards)
- Medical staff isolation or cover gowns (Protective gowns)
- Pulse oximeter units (Pulse oximeters)
- Canes or cane accessories (Quad canes)
- Reachers for the physically challenged (Reachers)
- Walkers or rollators (Reciprocating walkers)
- Reflex hammers or mallets (Reflex hammers)
- Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care (Roto beds)
- Back or lumbar or sacral orthopedic softgoods (Sacro-illiac joint lumbar corsets)
- Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
- Goggles (Safety goggles)
- Vascular sequential compression devices or tubing (Sequential compression devices)
- Short wave diathermy units (Short wave diathermy devices)
- Canes or cane accessories (Single point canes)
- Patient shifting boards or accessories (Sliding boards)
- Arm orthopedic softgoods (Slings)
- Orthopedic splint systems (Splints)
- Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care (Standing cages)
- Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care (Standing tables)
- Pedal exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy (Stationary bicycles)
- Patient stretchers or stretcher accessories (Stretchers)
- Medical staff isolation or surgical masks (Surgical masks)
- Therapeutic balls or accessories (Swiss exercise balls)
- Tablet computers
- Resistive exercise bands or putty or tubing or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Therabands)
- Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs (Therapeutic hot packs)
- Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care (Tilt tables)
- Patient lifts or accessories (Total lift chairs)
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units (Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment)
- Treadmill exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy (Treadmills)
- Ultrasonic therapy apparatus or supplies (Ultrasound machines)
- Ultraviolet UV lamps (Ultraviolet UV phototherapy lamps)
- Upper body resistance machines (Upper-body isokinetic machines)
- Wheelchairs
- Full body immersion hydrotherapy baths or tanks (Whirlpool therapy baths)
- Orthopedic splint systems (Wrist splints)
Technologies Include:
- Accounting software
- Accounting software
- Billing software
- Bookkeeping software
- Action games
- Video game software
- Virtual reality game software
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Scheduling software
- SpectraSoft AppointmentsPRO
- Data base user interface and query software
- dBase
- FileMaker Pro software
- Microsoft Access
- Electronic mail software
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Medical software
- Arena Health Systems Phys-X
- Beaver Creek Software The THERAPIST
- BioEx Systems Exercise Pro
- Client caseload management software
- Eazy Application Systems QuickEMR
- Knees Software PT DocTools
- Laboratory information system LIS software
- PhysioGraphic
- PhysioTools Tools RG
- Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite
- SpectraSoft DocuPRO
- Summit Software CarePoint
- TherAssist
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Spreadsheet software
- Word processing software
- Word processing software
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)
