Kings Park Physical Therapists, or PT’s, are licensed health care professionals who evaluate and treat people with health problems resulting from injury or disease.
PT’s assess joint motion, muscle strength and endurance, function of the heart and lungs, and performance of activities required in daily living, among other responsibilities.
Evaluate physical problems
Increase and maintain muscle strength and endurance
Restore and increase range of motion in joints
Increase coordination
Decrease pain
Decrease muscle spasm and spasticity
Decrease swelling/inflammation of joints
Promote healing of soft tissue lesions
Prevent contracture and deformity of limbs
Alleviate walking problems
Educate patients and families about their care
Decrease stress
Reprinted with permission from "Why it Feels Right to Put Your Health in the Hands of a Physical Therapist", copyright 1993, American Physical Therapy Association. For more information see the
APTA website.
