أخصائي علاج طبيعي بمركز القوات المسلحة للتأهيل الصحي بالطائف

Duties and Responsibilities

• Plans therapy programs for each patient, involving appropriate physiotherapy modalities.
• Applies diagnostic and prognostic muscle, nerve, joint, and functional ability.
• Directs and aids patients in active and passive exercises, muscle re-education, gait and functional training, utilization of pulleys and weights, steps and inclined surfaces; uses infrared and ultraviolet lamps, low-voltage generators, diathermy and ultrasonic machines.
• Gives whirlpool and contrast baths and applies moist packs.
• Directs patients in care and use of wheelchairs, braces, canes, crutches, and prosthetic and orthotic devices; gives instruction in posture control and therapeutic procedures to be continued by the patient.
• Adapts conventional physiotherapeutic techniques to meet the needs of the patient unable to comprehend verbal commands or voluntarily carry out a regime of therapeutic exercise.
• Evaluates and documents patients progress and makes the same available. Also to the other members of the rehabilitation team for review and team goal setting.
• May direct and supervise activities of assistants or volunteer workers and students.
• May conduct or participate in training medical and nursing personnel, students and other workers in physical therapy techniques and objectives.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.