Physical Therapy Assistant Nurse Allied jobs in Jbsa Fort Sam Houston Texas

Duties: - Under the direction of the Physical Therapist, plans, coordinates, and administers diverse physical therapy programs for wounded, ill and injured patients, as well as other beneficiaries. - Provides interpretation of Physical Therapist's findings to initiate care, considering patients' neurological, surgical, sensory, respiratory, cardiac status, gait ability, posture, age, and general health. - Designs a patient progressive treatment plan, utilized and designed to restore and maintain range of motion, strength, endurance, coordination, relaxation as well as promote healing, pain relief and improvement of functional independence. - Provides updated status in patient progress reports, as well as other administrative reports. - Instructs and reviews all home program precautions and contraindications with patients and family members on use and application of physical modalities for home environment. - Provides instruction to patients, family members and/or other health workers to perform selected treatment procedures and functional training activities. - Tracks procedure's effects on patients, long-and short-term effects of different types of therapy, and appropriateness of a specific therapy, noting overall trends in efficacy, reporting problems to supervisor. - Shares technical expertise with other therapy assistants, physical therapy students and other interdisciplinary team members. - Performs other duties as assigned.