Sports medicine physician vs physical therapist

Differences between sports medicine physician and physical therapist duties and responsibilities

Sports medicine physician example responsibilities.

• Assist with managing chronic illnesses including diabetes, hypertension, and CHF.
• Provide overall quality prenatal health care, gynecological services, patient triage, refer patients with complications, provide patient education service
• Assist with managing chronic illnesses including diabetes, hypertension, and CHF.

Physical therapist example responsibilities.

• Conduct in-services and train colleagues in effective techniques for safely managing the CVA patient.
• Achieve high level of patients satisfaction due to sound clinical management, quality of care and compassion.
• Perform physical therapy evaluation and treatment of orthopedic patients and supervise PTAs.
• Progress patients' functional mobility during treatment sessions by modifying task, intensity, and adaptive equipment utilize.
• Motivate patients to participate in treatment sessions by educating them on the benefits of early mobility following cardiac and thoracic surgery.
• Experience include IFSP and IEP writing and implementation
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