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O*NET detailed work activityTreat patients using physical therapy techniques
Stays humanHands-on care
6 jobs7 tasks
Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.
Part of Administer therapeutic treatments, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 7 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Perform a series of manual adjustments to the spine or other articulations of the body to correct the musculoskeletal system.
- Care for athletic injuries, using physical therapy equipment, techniques, or medication.
- Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.
- Administer treatment involving application of physical agents, using equipment, moist packs, ultraviolet or infrared lamps, or ultrasound machines.
- Apply heat or cold therapy to patients using materials, such as heat pads, hydrocollator packs, warm compresses, cold compresses, heat lamps, or vapor coolants.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
- Perform mobilizations and high-velocity adjustments to joints or soft tissues, using principles of massage, stretching, or resistance.