Physical Therapy Assistants in Kearney, Nebraska

Physical Therapy Assistants
male pta
Jeffrey M Karel

    Physical Therapy Assistant
4510 E 56th St, Kearney, NE 68847
308-865-6000    
female pta
Jennifer Horacek

    Physical Therapy Assistant
1811 W 42nd St, Kearney, NE 68845
308-338-0152    
female pta
Lea Ann Runcie, PTA

    Physical Therapy Assistant
3410 Central Ave, Kearney, NE 68847
308-234-1888    
female pta
Rebecca Taylor, PTA

    Physical Therapy Assistant
2010 W 38th St, Kearney, NE 68845
308-750-2552    
female pta
Tora Sue Knaus, PTA

    Physical Therapy Assistant
2810 W 35th St Ste 2, Kearney, NE 68845
308-237-7388    
Physical Therapy Assistants are individual who works under the supervision of a physical therapist to assist him or her in providing physical therapy services. A physical therapy assistant may, for instance, help patients follow an appropriate exercise program that will increase their strength, endurance, coordination, and range of motion and train patients to perform activities of daily life.
PTA's are skilled health care providers who are graduates of a physical therapist assistant associate degree program accredited by an agency recognized by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education or Council on Postsecondary Accreditation. They assists the physical therapist in providing physical therapy. The supervising physical therapist is directly responsible for the actions of the physical therapist assistant. The PTA performs physical therapy procedures and related tasks that have been selected and delegated by the supervising physical therapist.
Duties of the PTA include assisting the physical therapist in implementing treatment programs, training patients in exercised and activities of daily living, conducting treatments, and reporting to the physical therapist on the patient's responses. In addition to direct patient care, the PTA may also perform such functions as patient transport, and clinic or equipment preparation and maintenance. Currently more than half of all states require PTAs to be licensed, registered or certified.