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Physical therapists, or PT’s, are licensed health care professionals who evaluate and treat people with health problems resulting from injury or disease. PT’s assess joint motion, muscle strength and endurance, function of the heart and lungs, and performance of activities required in daily living, among other responsibilities.



  • Evaluate physical problems
  • Increase and maintain muscle strength and endurance
  • Restore and increase range of motion in joints
  • Increase coordination
  • Decrease pain
  • Decrease muscle spasm and spasticity
  • Decrease swelling/inflammation of joints
  • Promote healing of soft tissue lesions
  • Prevent contracture and deformity of limbs
  • Alleviate walking problems
  • Educate patients and families about their care
  • Decrease stress

    Reprinted with permission from "Why it Feels Right to Put Your Health in the Hands of a Physical Therapist", copyright 1993, American Physical Therapy Association. For more information see the APTA website.

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