Physical Therapy Aids

At physical therapy clinics, there are physical therapy aids that help to assist the therapists. Aids have certain tasks which they must complete while working. Their job is to conduct the pre-treatment exercises with the patients. The aids must know what exercise each patient must complete, based off of their flow sheet, how many sets of each, how to properly perform the exercises, what is used for each exercise, and the body part that is worked by performing the exercise. They must also apply heat or ice post treatment to patients, set timers, and rewrite flow sheets.