Physical Therapy Aide/ Tech
Physical Therapy Technician
120 HOURS / ACCESS LENGTH: 12 MONTHS / DELIVERY: ONLINE, MENTOR SUPPORTED/ At home self paced
Course Overview:
This comprehensive course will cover the knowledge, practices, and techniques needed to prepare you for the AMCA Physical Therapy Technician certification exam and satisfy the certification course requirement prior to exam admittance. Throughout this course, you will be required to read portions of the assigned text, complete reflective activities and practice activities, watch videos demonstrating procedure and research more information on assigned topics. Completion of this course will take approximately 120 hours. At the completion of this course, you will be required to take and pass the 50 question exam that will prepare you for your national certification exam.
This course prepares students to take the AMCA Physical Therapy Technician certification exam. The cost of the course includes the cost of the AMCA Physical Therapy Technician certification exam.
Students will:
- Discuss the role of the physical therapy technician and rehabilitation team as it relates to working with patients with physical disabilities.
- Demonstrate understanding and proper usage of applicable medical terminology.
- Identify clerical and administrative tasks, and their associated steps and procedures, that may be required of the physical therapy technician.
- Define the role of the physical therapy technician in caring for patients.
- Explain the purpose of patient preparation and identify the physical therapy technician’s role, identify individual responsibilities, in preparing the patient for physical therapy treatments.
- List and define all procedures to properly transfer a patient.
- Explain how to choose the appropriate ambulatory device for a patient’s use, based on the patient’s specific need.
- Describe the purpose and proper usage of therapeutic exercises and identify the physical therapy technician’s role in these practices.
- Discuss the purpose and identify the different agents and modalities in performing physical therapy.
- Identify the different types of specialist therapies used for patients with specific needs.