Physical Therapist resume keywords
What a physical therapist resume is screened for, and example bullets to adapt. Use the skills that are true of your experience, and put them inside accomplishment bullets rather than in a bare list.
Also covers: Physiotherapist, PT, Physical Therapy Assistant, PTA, Occupational Therapist, OT.
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Skills and keywords
These are the terms most consistently used to screen physical therapist applications. Spell tools and certifications the way postings spell them — a screen matches the words, not the meaning.
Example bullets
Each one has blanks in brackets. Fill them with your own figures, or rewrite the line — never keep a number you cannot explain.
- Evaluated and treated N patients a week for condition types.
- Designed home exercise programmes that improved functional scores by an average of N%.
- Maintained a caseload of N with N% of patients meeting discharge goals.
Verbs that signal ownership
Open bullets with these rather than with “responsible for” or “worked on”: