ROBERT HOGUE

Outpatient Orthopedic Clinical Internship

• Conducted patient examination, prognosis, intervention, and plan of care.
• Gained experience treating a large variety of musculoskeletal and neurologic impairments
• Clinical skills focused on manual therapy, exercise prescription, modalities, and dry needling

• Supervised 15 patients with varying stages of dementia diagnoses
• Provided initial assessments, developed, and implemented a 12 week progressive exercise program
• Worked in an interprofessional environment with nursing and communication science and disorders students to provide an all inclusive program
• Reviewed current literature and research to update and revise educational and exercise components

• Assisted 5 Physical Therapists to initiate different patient care plans in an outpatient setting
• Increased clinic efficiency by transferring patients from the waiting room through their objective measures from the therapist, ensuring tables are clean, and equipment is ready for use
• Answering phones, completing filing tasks, scheduling patients, and conducting inventory
• Executed the application of modalities such as cryotherapy, hydrocollator packs, biodex, traction, ultrasound, and electrical stimulation
• Performed daily duties such as laundry, inventory, temp/cleaning logs, patient paperwork, and equipment checks