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The Key to an Effective Physical Therapy Clinic/Rehab Hospital

By: Jenny Morcelo

+What a PT stands for Providing patients with optimal healthcare

Guide Patients every step of the way to recovery

Helping patients cope with and adjust to new physical impairments

+Ultimate Goal of a PT Clinic &Rehab Hospital One of our main priorities is to provide SAFE, EFFECTIVE, & FAST care in the best manner possible.

By utilizing the most efficient & reliable software and equipment that promotes just that.

+Where do we Start???

Exercise Equipment: Treadmills Hand Bikes Stair Climbers

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We need the essential software/equipment to start us off and to keep us going long term.

+Appropriate & Most Convenient Treatment Tables

Armedica Electric High Low Treatment tables AM-250 with Casters

Cost: $1,582.19 eachComes in a Variety of

Colors

Easy to Obtain on:www.isokineticsinc.com

+ Purpose:To serve as a place for seating or laying for patients

Value/Use: To accommodate patients in accordance to the treatment they are about to receive.

Description:- Strong, Stylish, & affordable- Full-height adjustment and Section mobility so

the patient can be placed in the proper position for maximum results with minimum effort

- For Patient: Comfort, easy access getting on and off table

- Foot switch control- Power assisted option for caster systerm- 400 lb lifting weight capacity- Face/Nose opening

+Compared to…

Very Inexpensive BUT- You get what you pay for- No Casters- Looks very Uncomfortable- Not Adjustable- Safety Hazard

+Goniometer

Baseline HiRes Plastic 360° ISOM (STR)- 6” Cost: $8.62

Easy to Obtain on:www.isokineticsinc.com

+ Purpose:To measure the range of motion (in degrees based on angles) of various joints around the body.

Value/Use:Assist in determining the progress a patient has made in a certain range of motion throughout their care period.

Description:- White Background behind the gradations numbers

and text, which assures high contract for accurate readability and resolutions

- Scale reads 1° increments

Pros:Very InexpensiveCan purchase multiple of them so that all PTs of the clinic could have access to one at all times

+Chilling/Heating Units

Hot Pack Machine- Model M-4Heating UnitCost: $2,057.94

Cold Pac Chilling Unit Model C-5Cost: $1,946.71

Both Can be easily obtained on:www.isokineticsinc.com

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Purpose: Provide Heat and Cold to medical equipment that requires it.

Use/Value:- Keep Hot packs used for heating therapy hot at all

times- Keep cold ice packs at frozen temperature at all

times, so that they are ready to use as needed.

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Description Heating Unit:- Largest mobile heating unit- Includes and hold 24 standard hot packs- Requires only a 20” x 32” floor space- Durable easy to maintain- Supplied ready for immediate use- Requires no special plumbing- Maximum energy efficiency

Description Chilling Unit:- Large Capacity- Faster Chilling time- No Plumbing/ Just Plug in

+Computers

Lenovo Thinkpad X220 TabletCost: $ 706.06

Can be easily Obtained on:www.Rakuten.comOr www. Levono.com

+Purpose:Equipment meant to facilitates sending/receiving information by accessing the internet, as well as other applications. As well as making it easier for people to carry this information with them anywhere, at any time.

Use/Value:- In a PT office these Computers can facilitate obtaining

information for our patients, as well as obtaining information about them rapidly.

- Very valuable use for recording/arranging appointment- Recently becoming very much of use for medical

records.

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Description:- LED convertible tablet and PC- 12.5” 4 GB Ram, 320 GB HDD- Genuine Windows 7 Professional- Considered a business quality Device- Touch Screen, Pen can be used- Easy to obtain Signatures

+Electronic Health Records Software

MedicsDocAssistant HERCost: $3,240 per year

Can be easily Obtained on:www.adsc.com

+Purpose:Provide healthcare providers with a software in which they can track, store, and share their patient’s medical records

Value/Use:- Having this software would be convenient because a

lot of healthcare facilities are switching to HER- Good way to communicate with other Health

Practitioners- Keeping track Insurance Payments- A lot more organized

+Description:- Flexible User-friendly design- Computer-based provider order Entry- MedicsRx- e-Prescribing- Medics Portal- Connects practice to patient and

vice versa- Patients can schedule appointments,

questionnaires, and communicate

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Thank You!