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Your role’s AI Resilience Score is
74.7%
Median Score
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These roles are expected to remain steady over time, with AI supporting rather than replacing the core work.
AI Resilience Report for
Physical Therapist Aides
They help patients recover by setting up exercise equipment, assisting with exercises, and keeping treatment areas clean and organized.
This role is stable
A career as a Physical Therapist Aide is considered "Stable" because many essential tasks, like helping patients with exercises and providing personal care, require a human touch and can't be easily replaced by AI. While technology is used to help with scheduling and supply management, the hands-on care and empathetic communication that aides provide are crucial and irreplaceable by machines.
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A career as a Physical Therapist Aide is considered "Stable" because many essential tasks, like helping patients with exercises and providing personal care, require a human touch and can't be easily replaced by AI. While technology is used to help with scheduling and supply management, the hands-on care and empathetic communication that aides provide are crucial and irreplaceable by machines.
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AI Resilience
AI Resilience Model v1.0
AI Task Resilience
CareerVillage's proprietary model that estimates how resilient each occupation's tasks are to AI automation and augmentation
Stable78.1%
78.1%
Microsoft's Working with AI
AI Applicability
Measures how applicable AI tools (like Bing Copilot) are to each occupation based on real usage patterns
Stable89.0%
89.0%
Will Robots Take My Job
Automation Resilience
Estimates the probability of automation for each occupation based on research from Oxford University and other academic sources
Evolving53.5%
53.5%
Althoff & Reichardt
Economic Growth
Measured as "Wage bill" which is a long term projection for average wage × employment. It's the total labor income flowing to an occupation
Stable79.7%
79.7%
Medium Demand
Labor Market Outlook
We use BLS employment projections to complement the AI-focused assessments from other sources.
Learn about this scoreGrowth Rate (2024-34):
2.8%
Growth Percentile:
49.4%
Annual Openings:
6,600
Annual Openings Pct:
45.4%
Analysis of Current AI Resilience
Physical Therapist Aides
Updated Quarterly • Last Update: 2/17/2026
What's changing and what's not
In many clinics, routine backend work is already aided by technology. For example, hospitals use delivery robots (like Moxi or TUG) to carry medications, linens or supplies so staff spend less time running errands [1] [2]. Clinics also use computer systems for scheduling and records.
Physical therapist aides often work with calendar apps, email, and electronic health record software (Epic, etc.) to track inventory or appointments [3] [2]. In other words, ordering supplies or booking patients increasingly involves software automation or even simple chatbots.
By contrast, hands-on care remains largely human-led. Tasks like guiding a patient through exercises, giving massages, or changing bed linens require personal touch, and AI has not replaced these in real clinics [4] [1]. Some research robots for rehabilitation exist (robotic treadmills or robotic arms), but they are not common in everyday therapy [4] [1].
Likewise, talking with therapists about a patient’s plan needs human discussion. In summary, AI and robots today mostly help with routine chores (delivering supplies, record-keeping) while people still do the close-contact therapy work.
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AI in the real world
Adoption of AI depends on cost, need, and trust. On one hand, hospitals face staff shortages and infectious risk, so robots that save time are attractive. For example, studies note nurses often spend ~30% of their day fetching supplies, so delivery robots give them back hours for patients [2] [1].
The COVID-19 pandemic even pushed some hospitals to try robots to reduce exposure [2] [1]. In these cases, AI tools that cut costs and burnout may spread quickly.
On the other hand, high-tech systems are expensive and require training. Research shows that lack of funding, evidence of benefit, and user training have kept many rehab robots out of clinics [4] [4]. Also, healthcare is personal: tasks needing empathy or judgment are kept by humans for now.
In brief, AI that boosts efficiency (like supply robots or smart scheduling) may grow, but human skills – caring communication, physical touch, and quick thinking – remain essential parts of therapy work [4] [1].
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Employment & Wage Data
Median Wage
$34,520
Jobs (2024)
45,600
Growth (2024-34)
+2.8%
Annual Openings
6,600
Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Experience
None
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
1
Change linens, such as bed sheets and pillow cases.
2
Administer active or passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, or heat, light, sound, water, or electrical modality treatments, such as ultrasound.
3
Confer with physical therapy staff or others to discuss and evaluate patient information for planning, modifying, or coordinating treatment.
4
Train patients to use orthopedic braces, prostheses, or supportive devices.
5
Instruct, motivate, safeguard, or assist patients practicing exercises or functional activities, under direction of medical staff.
6
Participate in patient care tasks, such as assisting with passing food trays, feeding residents, or bathing residents on bed rest.
7
Observe patients during treatment to compile and evaluate data on patients' responses and progress and report to physical therapist.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
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