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Health Professions: Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA)
Working with physical therapists, PTAs provide treatment and rehabilitative services to
patients who have experienced injury or disabling disease.
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Physical Therapist Assistants treatments include:
- Exercises for increasing strength, coordination, and joint
motion
- the use of heat, cold, electricity, light, and water to decrease
pain
- teaching functional activities, such as walking with crutches,
canes and walkers
Enjoy a fulfilling career working in a variety of healthcare settings such as: hospitals, long term care, facilities, home health, physician practices, insurance companies, other health care related companies.
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Get Started
*Curricular Change for 2014 Applicants* |
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| Apply by April 15 to start next Fall |
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Open House Information Sessions
- 3rd Thursday of each month (none held in Dec.)
- 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Regional Health Professions Center, Bldg M, Virginia Beach Campus, Room MN-218
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Transfer Students
* As of July, 1 2012 technical classes from other PT/PTA programs will no longer be
accepted for transfer credit. Transfer credit will be accepted for general education classes only. |
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Accreditation |
The Physical Therapy Assistant program at Tidewater Community College is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE), 1111 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314; telephone: 703-706-3245; email: accreditation@apta.org; website: http://www.capteonline.org
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