Today I got to see the techological side of the job. They use a website called optimist pt. Through this website they can make their initial assesments ont he patient in their first session. They can pull up the patient’s medical history, their plan for where they want to be at the end of therapy. Their measures of strength, range of motion, and other thigns over time, and any other notes that they want to take down about the patient. I actually got ot use it, which I thought was pretty cool. While Jefferey was assesing patients he would tell me numbers or notes and I would record it in the website. A lot of the job is actually recording information and typing up notes about the patient. During the time inbetween patients, it is normal to see the PTs focused on their computers using this website. Here is a page of a patient that had a shoulder replacement: 