Inpatients with a wide variety of health concerns benefit from physical therapy. Physical therapists work in these patient areas:

• Burns
• Cardiac
• Digestive diseases
• General medicine
• Neonatology
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Oncology
• Orthopaedics
• Psychiatry
• Rheumatology
• Transplant
• Trauma

Physical therapists evaluate each patient and work as part of a team to determine appropriate discharge plans including home, inpatient rehabilitation or skilled nursing, and outpatient services.

Evaluation procedures include:

• Assistive and Adaptive Equipment Requirements
• Balance
• Bed Mobility
• Coordination
• Exercise Tolerance
• Gait
• Prosthetic Requirements
• Range of Motion
• Sensation/Pain
• Strength
• Transfers

Physical therapists use the findings of their evaluation to determine appropriate interventions and develop a treatment plan to improve patients' mobility and functional skills.

Interventions include:

• Therapeutic Exercise
• Balance Training
• Mobility Training
• Gait Training
• Patient and Family/Caregiver Education