
This free online diploma course shows you how to support the treatment of physical therapy patients as an assistant. This course teaches you how to help patients improve their mobility and manage pain and other chronic conditions. A physical therapist aide plays an essential role in helping patients recover from injuries. This course identifies the function of different parts of the human body and provides techniques to help them to recover and strengthen. Physical therapists require these skills and we explain how aides support them in this important work.
| Course Category | Healthcare Management, Business |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Diploma |
| Course Duration | 5-6 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world's largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Outline the history of physical therapy • List the different facilities in which a physical therapy aide can work • Explain the terms for positions and orientation of the patient and describe those positions • Identify the range of motion for different joints in the body • Describe neurological illnesses that physical therapy can help alleviate • Discuss different methods for transferring a patient to and from chairs, beds, wheelchairs, etc • Employ equipment to assist with gait training • Identify the correct body mechanics for lifting activities |
| Course Code | 1405 |



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