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65B Physical Therapy

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Overview

Physical Therapy Officers plan and supervise physical therapy programs and evaluate and treat disorders of human motion in medical settings, the broader healthcare community, and field environments. They advise commanders on physical fitness, training, and injury prevention, conduct rehabilitation training, and provide burn, wound, and neuromusculoskeletal care during wartime.

Core Skills

  • Burn and wound care in field environments
  • Neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation for return to duty
  • Injury prevention guidance for physical training
  • Therapeutic exercise and joint mobilization

Civilian Career Paths

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Physical Therapist

Evaluating movement disorders, treating neuromusculoskeletal conditions, and planning rehabilitation programs directly support civilian physical therapy practice.

How to prepare: Ask the licensing board in your intended state to review your education and current licensure against its requirements. Entry into the occupation requires a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree, and all states require licensure that includes a qualifying exam.

What the civilian work involves
  • Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.
  • Perform and document an initial exam, evaluating data to identify problems and determine a diagnosis prior to intervention.
  • Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Advantage Software Physical Therapy Advantage

Training & Development

Choose credentials for your target role. COOL funding markers describe program listings, not a guarantee of eligibility or funding.

Getting Started

  • National Physical Therapist Examination (NPTE)

    Complete the qualifying examination component of physical therapist licensure if it remains outstanding.

    Eligibility and preparation: An exam-level-appropriate degree from a CAPTE-accredited institution or education determined substantially equivalent by a recognized credentialing agency, plus approval from the intended licensing jurisdiction. Candidates must meet both FSBPT and jurisdiction requirements; jurisdictions may approve graduates or graduating students from qualifying programs.

    For: Physical Therapist

Career Growth

  • Board-Certified Wound Management Clinical Specialist

    Build a wound management specialty within physical therapy on the military role's burn and wound care experience.

    Eligibility and preparation: Current permanent, unrestricted physical therapy licensure in the United States or its possessions or territories, plus either 2,000 hours of direct specialty patient care as a licensed U.S. physical therapist within the last 10 years, including 500 within the last three years and excluding temporary-license practice, or completion of an APTA-accredited post-professional clinical residency in the specialty within the last 10 years.

    For: Physical Therapist

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (7 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 65B Physical Therapy

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 65B (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Burn and wound care in field environments, Neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation for return to duty, Injury prevention guidance for physical training, Therapeutic exercise and joint mobilization, Physical Therapist (O*NET 29-1123.00), Board-Certified Wound Management Clinical Specialist

  2. O*NET: Physical Therapists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Physical Therapist (O*NET 29-1123.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: physical therapists

    [3] How to Become One; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Physical Therapist (O*NET 29-1123.00), National Physical Therapist Examination (NPTE)

  4. COOL credential mapping: National Physical Therapist Examination (NPTE)

    [4] 65B cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: National Physical Therapist Examination (NPTE)

  5. FSBPT: NPTE Eligibility Requirements

    [5] Eligibility Requirements (FSBPT and jurisdiction requirements); retrieved 2026-10-05

    Supports: National Physical Therapist Examination (NPTE)

  6. COOL credential mapping: Board-Certified Wound Management Clinical Specialist

    [6] 65B cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Board-Certified Wound Management Clinical Specialist

  7. APTA Specialist Certification (ABPTS): Minimum Requirements for All Specialties

    [7] Approved exam candidates; Option A and Option B evidence; retrieved 2026-10-05

    Supports: Board-Certified Wound Management Clinical Specialist

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