Staff
Amy Amelotte
Physical Therapist
Amy Amelotte began her career with HBPTS as a volunteer in the early 90's. She returned to HBPTS as a student intern in 1996, two years after being accepted at CSU's Physical Therapy program. Amy graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Therapy, and worked for the next fours years at St. Joseph's Hospital in Orange.
Career Highlights: California State University, BA in Physical Therapy 4,500 hours direct patient care: Outpatient Orthopedic Physical Therapy 4,000 hours direct patient care: Inpatient Orthopedic Physical Therapy 100 hours of continuing education |
During her four years at St. Joseph's, Amy worked for two years in their Transitional Care Unit treating a wide variety of patients. She worked extensively with patients to restore their strenght and functional mobilility; trained family members how to assist; and performed home safety assessments to ensure a safe environment.
Amy also designed and implemented a tranfer training program for the TCU, training staff in proper patient transfer techniques.
Amy transferred to the Orthopedics Unit and treated patients post-cerival and lumbar fusion and laminectomy surgery, total hip, knee and shoulder surgery; and those with debilitating leg, ankle and foot injuries. Amy was also an instructor for the pre-op total hip and knee classes, educating patients on pre-op exercises, post-op surgical precautions, and rehab expectations.
Amy focused her continuing education courses on developing her orthopedic manual therapy skills, while working both in-patient and outpatient orthopedics.
Over the last four years, Amy has enjoyed working with the wonderful staff at HBPTS and has expanded her manual therapy skills by treating a wide variety of patients. She is very personable and caring therapist, dedicated to her patients and to assisting them in acheiving their rehab goals. She believes that a patient should be treated as a whole person, not just a treatment diagnosis and attempts to address the physical, emotional and social aspects of her patients' pain/condition in their treatment. Amy takes pride in her work and in the positive impact that she has made in her patient's lives.
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