Area of Study: Physical Therapist Assisting Technology 

Degree/Certificate: Associate of Applied Science degree in Physical Therapist Assisting Technology  

Program Sequence

If you like to help people and enjoy working with body movement, Physical Therapist Assisting (PTA) may be a rewarding career for you. As a Physical Therapist Assistant, you’ll help people to recover from accidents, injuries, illness, stroke and other debilitating events.

Physical therapy helps to ease pain and improve function caused by injury, disease or other causes. Services include assisted movement, exercise treatment and heat/cold therapy.

The Physical Therapist Assistant program will prepare you for a professional health care career providing physical therapy treatments under the supervision of a Physical Therapist. Graduates are eligible to take an exam to qualify for licensure in any state.

Tri-C students get clinical experience with real patients at more than 75 clinical sites in northeast Ohio, including all of the major medical centers.

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