Kinesiologist vs therapist

Differences between kinesiologist and therapist duties and responsibilities

Kinesiologist example responsibilities.

• Achieve high level of patients satisfaction due to sound clinical management, quality of care and compassion.
• Assist patient with training on DME's design for their protocols.
• Perform evaluations and interventions to enhance strength, endurance, and mobility of veterans with impair movement or extensive deconditioning.
• Employ at an out-patient orthopedic clinic with primary goal for patient return to work, ADL, or sports/recreation activities.

Therapist example responsibilities.

• Manage ventilator and BiPAP's and create or update care plans per patient needs.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of community mental health services identify in the Medicaid guidelines and attain contractual outcomes within designate time frames.
• Provide on-call crisis intervention as well as standard treatment, rehabilitation and support services with some interventions requiring specialize therapy services.
• Develop and implement an effective curriculum of DBT inform group and art therapy classes specifically tailor for chemically dependent patients.
• Provide trauma-inform individual psychotherapy, TREM group treatment protocol, and EMDR.
• Utilize current brain base therapeutic techniques to teach clients adaptive skills to utilize in daily lives.
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