Health Services

Physical Therapy

Our mission is to be the cornerstone of medical and performance readiness by promoting healthy lifestyles, optimizing human performance, as well as treating and rehabilitating injuries for Fort Hood Soldiers, their Families, and beneficiaries.

Physical Therapy Clinics

Services

  • Evaluation, diagnosis, and management of neuromusculoskeletal disorders in and outpatient rehabilitation setting
  • Aquatic physical therapy rehabilitation classes
  • Post-operative care for orthopedic surgeries
  • Transitional gym-based programs to allow Soldiers to re-adapt to the physical demands of Army life
In physical therapy, we encourage active participation and challenge our patients to improve. All patients should be dressed in appropriate physical training or gym clothes during all of their physical therapy appointments. Please no open toed shoes. Sneakers are preferred. We provide changing areas and showers upon request. We also have lockers.  Please provide your own lock.
 
US Army - Baylor University DPT Clinical Internship

Site Coordinator of Clinical Education

254-553-9015
The clinical internship seeks to produce active duty physical therapists for the United States Uniformed Services – Army, Navy, Air Force, and Public Health – with the knowledge and expertise to examine and treat patients with neuromusculoskeletal problems. The program provides students with the knowledge, skills, problem–solving ability, duties, responsibilities, and ethics to deliver quality physical therapy patient care and provides those concepts, principles, methods and role models, which will stimulate the continuous personal and professional growth of these physical therapy officers. Students are commissioned in the Army Medical Specialist Corps, the Navy Medical Service Corps, the Air Force Biomedical Science Corps, or the Public Health Service.

A 12 month internship beginning after the students complete 18 months of didactic study which includes one seven week clinical experience. The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center (CRDAMC) is one of six possible sites at which the students may get assigned to complete this last phase of their Doctorate in Physical Therapy degree. The physical therapy internship includes a combination of central requirements from the AMEDD Center and School and site unique learning opportunities. Interns are evaluated using the Clinical Assessment Book (CAB) (2010) and the Clinical Performance Instrument (CPI) (2011).

Rotations: All interns will perform 6 weeks of acute care training at the Central Texas VA Hospital in Temple, TX. Interns also rotate to numerous clinics at CRDAMC for varying times in order to gain a better understanding of the entire medical process. Rotations may include, but are not limited to:
  1. Occupational therapy
  2. Orthopedics
  3. Radiology
  4. Podiatry
  5. Physical medicine
  6. Internal medicine
  7. Brigade Combat Team PT Clinic
  8. Family medicine
  9. Neurosurgery
  10. Cast room
  11. Neurology
  12. Pain clinic
  13. Dermatology
  14. Brace shop
  15. Emergency department
  16. TBI clinic




 

Contact Us

Hours

Monday-Friday 
6 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Phone

254-553-4145
254-288-8037
254-288-8044 (fax)

Bennett PT Clinic
254-618-8138

Copperas Cove Medical Home
254-553-5801

Location

Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center
590 Medical Center Road
Building 36065
Fort Cavazos, Texas 76544
 
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