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Every outpatient PT treats post-surgical knees and shoulders. What separates a strong resume is evidence the treatment worked: a FOTO or other standardized outcome score, a return-to-sport or return-to-work timeline, a caseload size and complexity. If you are early in practice and do not track scores yet, caseload volume and the range of diagnoses you manage independently still tell the story.
Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, dry needling certification, manual therapy certification: list them together with the certifying body and the year. A clinic director scanning for a specific credential should not have to read your full work history to confirm you hold it.
WebPT, Clinicient and Raintree are not interchangeable to a practice planning your onboarding and productivity ramp-up. If a posting names a specific system, say directly whether you have used it.
Phrases like "performed therapeutic exercise and manual therapy" describe every PT’s daily task list. A resume that names the actual population and diagnosis mix, post-op ortho, sports, pelvic health, neuro, tells a hiring manager exactly what kind of caseload you are ready to take on.
One page for a new DPT graduate or anyone with under roughly seven years of clinical experience. Two pages becomes reasonable once you have clinic leadership experience, a specialty certification like OCS, or a career history long enough that trimming it would lose real information.
List the license type and state, for example "Physical Therapist License, Idaho," but leave the number off a resume you are sending to multiple employers or posting on a job board. It gets verified directly during hiring.
Caseload size, the range of diagnoses you manage independently, and any mentoring or precepting you have done are all real evidence. A specific detail like a "14-patient daily caseload including post-op ACL and rotator cuff repairs" tells a hiring manager more than a vague claim about being a "dedicated" clinician.
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