Physical Therapists

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Lower extremity prosthetic devices (Above-the-knee prosthetics)
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care (Adjusting tables)
• Treadmill exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy (Aquacisers)
• Upper extremity prosthetic devices (Arm prosthetics)
• Work tables or stations or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Axial-resistance shoulder wheels)
• Reflex hammers or mallets (Babinski hammers)
• Balance beams or boards or bolsters or rockers for rehabilitation or therapy (Balance beams)
• Balance beams or boards or bolsters or rockers for rehabilitation or therapy (Balance boards)
• Lower extremity prosthetic devices (Below-the-knee prosthetics)
• Mats or platforms for rehabilitation or therapy (Biomechanical ankle platform system BAPS systems)
• Blood pressure cuff kits (Blood pressure cuffs)
• Balance beams or boards or bolsters or rockers for rehabilitation or therapy (Bolsters/wedges)
• Canes or cane accessories (Canes)
• Pivotal traction therapy supplies (Cervical pivots)
• Vascular or compression apparel or supports (Compression garments)
• Vestibular motion devices for rehabilitation or therapy (Computerized dynamic posturography (CDP) balance test systems)
• Continuous passive motion CPM devices or accessories (Continuous passive motion CPM machines)
• Crutches or crutch accessories (Crutches)
• Therapeutic cryo compression therapy systems (Cryotherapy equipment)
• Short wave diathermy units (Diathermy equipment)
• Digital cameras
• Cognitive or dexterity or perceptual or sensory evaluation or testing products (Digital inclinometer range of motion measurement instruments)
• Digital camcorders or video cameras (Digital video cameras)
• Digital camcorders or video cameras (Digital video equipment)
• Electromyography EMG units or accessories (Electromyography EMG biofeedback equipment)
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Cognitive or dexterity or perceptual or sensory evaluation or testing products (Electronic manual muscle testers)
• Therapeutic balls or accessories (Exercise balls)
• Pedal exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy (Exercise bicycles)
• Weight machines for rehabilitation or therapy (Fitness machines)
• Extremity hydrotherapy baths or tanks (Fluidotherapy equipment)
• Force or torque sensors (Force sensors)
• Neuromuscular stimulators or kits (Functional electrical stimulation FES equipment)
• Gait belts for rehabilitation or therapy (Gait belts)
• Goniometers
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories (Heart rate monitors)
• Galvanic or faradic stimulators (High-voltage Galvanic stimulation machines)
• Patient care beds or accessories for general use (Hospital roto beds)
• Patient lifts or accessories (Hoyer lifts)
• Grip strengthener (Hydraulic hand dynamometers)
• Medical hydrocollators or accessories (Hydrocollator heating units)
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs (Ice packs)
• Infrared lamps
• Electrotherapy combination units (Interferential electrical stimulation machines)
• Work tables or stations or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Inversion physical therapy tables)
• Electrotherapy combination units (Iontophoresis equipment)
• Lower body resistance machines (Isokinetic lower body testing/rehabilitation equipment)
• Upper body resistance machines (Isokinetic upper body testing/rehabilitation equipment)
• Grip strengthener (Isotonic exercise equipment)
• Knee braces or hinged knee supports (Knee braces)
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Laser printers
• Galvanic or faradic stimulators (Low volt muscle stimulators)
• Pivotal traction therapy supplies (Lumbar pivots)
• Electric vibrators for rehabilitation or therapy (Massagers)
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories (Mechanical stethoscopes)
• Therapeutic heating or cooling pads or compresses or packs (Moist hot packs)
• Weight machines for rehabilitation or therapy (Multiaxial exercise equipment)
• Dynamometers (Muscle strength dynamometers)
• Cognitive or dexterity or perceptual or sensory evaluation or testing products (Muscle testing equipment)
• Cervical collars or neck braces (Neck braces)
• Reflex hammers or mallets (Neurological hammers)
• Neuromuscular stimulators or kits (Neuromuscular stimulation equipment)
• Pivotal traction therapy supplies (Occipivots)
• Orthotics or foot care products (Orthotics)
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets (Otoscopes)
• Therapeutic paraffin baths or accessories (Paraffin baths)
• Parallel bars for rehabilitation or therapy (Parallel bars)
• Pelvis or back traction supplies (Pelvic traction equipment)
• Reflex hammers or mallets (Percussion hammers)
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
• Ultrasonic therapy apparatus or supplies (Phonopheresis equipment)
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories (Portable cardiac monitors)
• Powder boards for rehabilitation or therapy (Powder boards)
• Pulleys or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Pulley exercise systems)
• Reachers for the physically challenged (Reachers)
• Exercise trampolines (Rebounders)
• Resistive exercise bands or putty or tubing or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Resistive exercise bands)
• Resistive exercise bands or putty or tubing or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Resistive tubing)
• Rowing machines
• Back or lumbar or sacral orthopedic softgoods (Sacro-illiac joint lumbar corsets)
• Wrist exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy (Shoulder finger ladders)
• Work tables or stations or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Shoulder wheels)
• Patient shifting boards or accessories (Sliding boards)
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care (Standing tables)
• Stair climbers (Stepper exercisers)
• Electromyography EMG units or accessories (Surface electromyography equipment)
• Therapeutic balls or accessories (Swiss exercise balls)
• Pivotal traction therapy supplies (Thoracic pivots)
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care (Tilt tables)
• Patient lifts or accessories (Total lift chairs)
• Work tables or stations or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Traction and mobilization physical therapy tables)
• Orthopedic traction softgoods for general use (Traction belts)
• Orthopedic traction hardware or weights (Traction equipment)
• Training stairs for rehabilitation or therapy (Training stairs)
• Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units (Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment)
• Treadmill exercisers for rehabilitation or therapy (Treadmills)
• Ultrasonic therapy apparatus or supplies (Ultrasound machines)
• Ultraviolet UV lamps
• Work tables or stations or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Upper body ergometers)
• Walkers or rollators (Walkers)
• Walking braces
• Pulleys or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Wall pulleys)
• Weights or sets or accessories for rehabilitation or therapy (Weights)
• Wheelchairs
• Full body immersion hydrotherapy baths or tanks (Whirlpool therapy baths)

Technologies Include:

• Accounting software

• MediGraph software

• Action games

• Biometrics video game software

• Analytical or scientific software

• Cedaron Dexter Evaluation & Impairment Rating

• Calendar and scheduling software

• SpectraSoft AppointmentsCS

• Medical software

• Advantage Software Physical Therapy Advantage
• Clinicient Insight
• Hands On Technology TheraWriter.PT
• Recordkeeping software
• Rehab Documentation Company ReDoc Suite

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Word processing software

• Exercise routine creation software

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)