Disciplines and Occupations

Physical Therapy Specialty

The auxiliary health profession by which PHYSICAL THERAPISTS make use of PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES to prevent, correct, and alleviate movement dysfunction of anatomic or physiological origin.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

The auxiliary health profession by which PHYSICAL THERAPISTS make use of PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES to prevent, correct, and alleviate movement dysfunction of anatomic or physiological origin.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Physiotherapy Specialty
  • Specialty, Physical Therapy
  • Specialty, Physiotherapy
  • Therapy Specialty, Physical

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

use for the specialty only; use MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS or PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES or their specifics for therapy

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History Note

2012 (1963)

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Previous Indexing

  • Physical Therapy Techniques (1963-2001)

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Tree Number

  1. H02w.010w.625w

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NLM Classification

WB 460

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Physical Therapy Specialty. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D026761. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D026761
  2. Physical Therapy Specialty. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_therapy
  3. Physical Therapy Specialty. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186005