Physical Therapist Assistants
Healthcare SupportAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Physical Therapist Assistants with an AI automation risk score of 4%. Analysis includes 21 core tasks.
Safer Career Paths
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Key Tasks
Communicate with or instruct caregivers or family members on patient therapeutic activities or treatment plans.
Document patient information
Observe patients during treatments to compile and evaluate data on their responses and progress and provide results to physical therapist in person or through progress notes.
Instruct patients in proper body mechanics and in ways to improve functional mobility
Secure patients into or onto therapy equipment.
Confer with physical therapy staff or others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning
Administer active or passive manual therapeutic exercises
Upskilling Courses
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data