Become A Physical Therapy Assistant
PTA or PT Assistants have an increasing interest as a profession to a lot of people lately due to the fact that is is one of a lot of medical related professions that are recession proof. Whether we have a bad economy or not, we still need healthcare professionals to take care of the sick and the elderly.
An interest also peaked at this profession due to a good
physical therapy assistant salary and schooling is usually only 2 years.
A physical therapy assistant works under the supervision of a physical therapists and assists in treating patients with problems on their activities of daily living (ADL’s) like walking, transfers, balance, pain etc. Patients will normally have neurological and/or orthopedic problems.