WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.390 >> My name is Drew Baker [phonetic]. 00:00:01.390 --> 00:00:06.210 I'm a physical therapist at Baptist here in Oxford. 00:00:06.210 --> 00:00:11.020 Typical day, come in and see what all I've got on my list. 00:00:11.020 --> 00:00:15.100 See who all I need to see and go upstairs. 00:00:15.100 --> 00:00:19.250 I work on the floor so I go to individual patient rooms instead 00:00:19.250 --> 00:00:21.770 of just seeing people in a gym. 00:00:21.770 --> 00:00:28.870 So go up, kind of see what's wrong with each person and kind of what they're able to do. 00:00:28.870 --> 00:00:37.070 And you know, the idea in the hospital is to get them up out of bed and get them moving again. 00:00:37.070 --> 00:00:41.610 So that when they go home, you know they're able to do that on their own and be independent 00:00:41.610 --> 00:00:47.090 or if they need more therapy from the hospital or any equipment or anything like that, 00:00:47.090 --> 00:00:48.500 we can get them to set up with that. 00:00:48.500 --> 00:00:51.880 So that's an overview, I guess of it. 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:57.210 Well in the hospital, in acute care, you're dealing in general 00:00:57.210 --> 00:01:01.040 with more of a geriatric population. 00:01:01.040 --> 00:01:05.840 So a lot of times you'll have to use a cane or a walker or something like that if they're able 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:09.310 to get up and out of bed at that time. 00:01:09.310 --> 00:01:13.040 If not, you know you might just be working on getting them to be able to sit up on their own 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:18.230 or something like that depending on how sick they were from the get go. 00:01:18.230 --> 00:01:25.160 But we use rolling walkers a lot, wheelchairs some, and you know, gait belts 00:01:25.160 --> 00:01:27.160 and stuff like that when they're walking. 00:01:27.160 --> 00:01:30.310 And as far as exercises, most of the time since you don't -- 00:01:30.310 --> 00:01:34.540 you're not in a gym, you don't have all the therabands and the weights and all that -- 00:01:34.540 --> 00:01:41.430 the equipment, you're basically doing a lot of exercises in the bed or sitting on the edge 00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:43.570 of the bed or standing up, you know, 00:01:43.570 --> 00:01:46.380 in the their room doing exercises and that sort of thing. 00:01:46.380 --> 00:01:51.950 But it's much more of a functional mobility type of thing as opposed to what you would think 00:01:51.950 --> 00:01:55.620 of as just therapy, you know, doing exercises. 00:01:55.620 --> 00:01:56.050 So -- 00:01:56.050 --> 00:01:58.610 Well, you know, most people when they think of physical therapy, 00:01:58.610 --> 00:02:03.380 they think of probably outpatient sports medicine type rehab. 00:02:03.380 --> 00:02:09.070 So that's definitely one option treating athletes and you know, 00:02:09.070 --> 00:02:15.300 that sort of population that's had a, you know, knee injury or shoulder injury or even -- 00:02:15.300 --> 00:02:19.730 you also get a lot of back injuries and stuff like that in outpatient. 00:02:19.730 --> 00:02:23.170 That's one major route that people go. 00:02:23.170 --> 00:02:29.400 Another would be what I'm doing which is acute care in the hospital and you know, 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.540 you can also go to a nursing home. 00:02:32.540 --> 00:02:35.420 You can do that. 00:02:35.420 --> 00:02:39.920 Those, I would say, are probably the 3 major -- well you can do home health too. 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:46.010 You can be traveling therapist that goes around and does home health therapy too but -- 00:02:46.010 --> 00:02:48.000 [ Silence ]