A physical therapist is a skilled healthcare professional with a minimum of a bachelor's degree who evaluates, diagnoses, treats, and manages patients with injuries or movement problems. They examine patients, develop treatment plans, provide physical therapy treatments, oversee supportive staff, re-evaluate patients, and establish discharge plans. The key elements of patient management for a physical therapist are examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment planning, interventions, and monitoring outcomes.

1. • Sherry Lynn Carag PTRP, MSPT

2. What is Physical Therapist
• A skilled health professional with a minimum
of baccalaureate degree; and have a current
accreditation standard

3. Role of a PT
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Examines patient
Evaluate data
Establish diagnosis, prognosis and plan of care
Administer and supervise plan of care
Delegates portion of plan of care to supportive
personnels
• Supervise and directs supportive staff
• Re-evaluates and adjust plan of care plan of care

4. • Performs and evaluates final evaluation and
establish discharge and follow up plans
• Consultation by giving professional opinions to
others to identify problems, recommend
solution or produce a specific outcome.

5. Elements of Patient Management
1. Examination
• The process of obtaining a history, performing
a systems review and selecting and
administering test and measure to gather data
bout the patient and a client
• The initial examination is a comprehensive
screening

6. 2. Evaluation
• A dynamic process in which the physical therapist
makes clinical judgment based on the data
gathered
3. Diagnosis
• Both the process and the end result of evaluating
examination data, which the physical therapist
organizes into defined clusters, syndromes or
categories to help determine the prognosis and
most appropriate intervention

7. 4. Prognosis (plan of care)
• Determination of the level of optimal
improvement that may be attained through
intervention and the amount of time required
to reach that level
5. Interventions
• Purposeful and skilled interaction of the
physical therapist with the patient and other
healthcare individuals

8. 6. Outcomes
• Result of the management