Rehabilitation therapy refers to therapeutic treatment patients receive after an illness or injury like cancer, stroke, or accident. Nationally, physical therapist assistants earn hourly wages between $14.62-$31.95 or $30,400-$66,460 annually depending on experience level. Rehabilitation therapists most commonly work in home health services, nursing care facilities, and hospitals and treat patients to regain strength, mobility, and fitness or for cardiac rehabilitation. Training requires an associate's degree from an accredited program and passing national and sometimes state exams for licensure.

2.  What is Rehabilitation?
 What % of PTA’s (nationally/regionally)
work in Rehabilitation?
 Salary Range
 What types of patients/treatments are
seen?
 What type of training?

3.  Rehab therapy refers to the therapeutic
treatment a patient receives after a
illness or injury . It can be do to cancer, a
stroke, or an automobile accident.

4.  Nationally
› Hourly Wage $14.62-$31.95
› Annual Wage $30,400-$66,460
This all depends on what percentile your in
starting with 10% all the way up to 90%.

5.  Home Health Services
 Nursing Care Facilities
 Hospitals
 There are more but you hear of these
most.

6.  You may treat your patients to:
› Gain strength, mobility, and fitness back
› Or even along the lines of cardiac
rehabilitation

7.  Must complete a 2 year associates
degree that has to be accredited.
 Then you must pass the National Physical
Therapy Exam and in some states you
must also pass a state exam.
 This prepares you for licensure,
registration, or certification.

9.  This is the Kettler
Teletrimmer.
 It is used for the
lower extremities
such has the hip,
knee and ankle
mobility.

10.  http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-
rehabilitation-therapy.htm
 http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-
rehabilitation-therapy.htm
 http://www.ehow.com/about_6464056_
physical-therapist-assistant-
education.html
 http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes3120
21.htm#nat

11.  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/reh
abilitation.html
 http://www.nomeq.co.uk/rehab1.html