Purpose Of PTA Therapy

The purpose of this type of therapy was mainly to help the client increase his mobility (the ability to move easily). The PTA wanted the patient to practice walking more so that they can eventually walk normally again and resume to their daily activities. This therapy was also done to help the patient to breathe normally again. The PTA informed me that when the patient begins to walk and move around more again, then they will become less winded (to become out of breath) when the perform activities.
The purpose of this therapy done on this patient was to help gain the patient’s endurance (enduring a process without giving up) since they were recovering from open-heart surgery. It is important for him to keep walking so that he can recover faster