>> My name is Drew Baker [phonetic].
I'm a physical therapist at Baptist here in Oxford.
Typical day, come in and see what all I've got on my list.
See who all I need to see and go upstairs.
I work on the floor so I go to individual patient rooms instead
of just seeing people in a gym.
So go up, kind of see what's wrong with each person and kind of what they're able to do.
And you know, the idea in the hospital is to get them up out of bed and get them moving again.
So that when they go home, you know they're able to do that on their own and be independent
or if they need more therapy from the hospital or any equipment or anything like that,
we can get them to set up with that.
So that's an overview, I guess of it.
Well in the hospital, in acute care, you're dealing in general
with more of a geriatric population.
So a lot of times you'll have to use a cane or a walker or something like that if they're able
to get up and out of bed at that time.
If not, you know you might just be working on getting them to be able to sit up on their own
or something like that depending on how sick they were from the get go.
But we use rolling walkers a lot, wheelchairs some, and you know, gait belts
and stuff like that when they're walking.
And as far as exercises, most of the time since you don't --
you're not in a gym, you don't have all the therabands and the weights and all that --
the equipment, you're basically doing a lot of exercises in the bed or sitting on the edge
of the bed or standing up, you know,
in the their room doing exercises and that sort of thing.
But it's much more of a functional mobility type of thing as opposed to what you would think
of as just therapy, you know, doing exercises.
So --
Well, you know, most people when they think of physical therapy,
they think of probably outpatient sports medicine type rehab.
So that's definitely one option treating athletes and you know,
that sort of population that's had a, you know, knee injury or shoulder injury or even --
you also get a lot of back injuries and stuff like that in outpatient.
That's one major route that people go.
Another would be what I'm doing which is acute care in the hospital and you know,
you can also go to a nursing home.
You can do that.
Those, I would say, are probably the 3 major -- well you can do home health too.
You can be traveling therapist that goes around and does home health therapy too but --
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