SUMMARY:
Ortho Sport and Spine Physicians is a rapidly expanding orthopedic practice, with clinics in Georgia, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. Additionally, there is an Ambulatory Surgery center in Atlanta. The practice specializes in providing state-of-the- art, minimally invasive treatment of complex neck and spine problems, as well as sports related injuries and conditions.
The PMR position is responsible for diagnosing and treat disorder requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.
JOB DUTIES:
- Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients’ outcomes.
- Record patient medical histories.
- Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
- Examine patients to assess general physical condition.
- Assess characteristics of patients’ pain such as intensity, location, and duration using standardized clinical measures.
- Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
- Treat chronic diseases or disorders.
- Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions such as medication and spinal injections.
- Develop comprehensive plans for immediate and long-term rehabilitation including therapeutic exercise; speech and occupational therapy; counseling; cognitive retraining; patient, family or caregiver education; or community reintegration.
- Coordinate physical medicine and rehabilitation services with other medical activities.
- Perform electrodiagnosis including electromyography, nerve conduction studies, or somatosensory evoked potentials of neuromuscular disorders or damage.
- Prescribe therapy services, such as electrotherapy, ultrasonography, heat or cold therapy, hydrotherapy, debridement, short-wave or microwave diathermy, and infrared or ultraviolet radiation, to enhance rehabilitation.
- Diagnose or treat performance-related conditions such as sports injuries or repetitive motion injuries.
- Diagnose medical conditions.
- Treat acute illnesses, infections, or injuries.
- Conduct physical tests such as functional capacity evaluations to determine injured workers’ capabilities to perform the physical demands of their jobs.
- Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience.
- 5 years of PMR experience
- 5-7 Years of Specialized Medical Training
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Master’s Degree; Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree)
- 5 years of PMR experience
- 5-7 Years of Specialized Medical Training
Ortho Sport and Spine Physicians is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment practices on the basis of race, religion, sex, color, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, genetic information, veteran status, military service, or any other characteristic protected by federal law or Georgia law.