Physical & Occupational Therapy in Columbia, MS

There are 15 licensed therapists registered in Columbia. The two most common licence types are physical therapist (12) and occupational therapist (3).

That is roughly 1.3 providers per square mile of land area, or 23 per 10,000 residents.

Density is the closest public proxy for how hard it will be to get an appointment, but it is only a proxy. It counts everyone with a registered address here, including people who have retired, moved or stopped taking new clients — nothing forces those records to be updated. Read it as an encouraging upper bound rather than a promise.

Columbia is the 48th largest concentration in Mississippi by number of providers, accounting for 0.3% of the state total.

The mix here is unusually concentrated: physical therapist outnumber the next largest group by more than three to one. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training, so a lopsided mix usually says more about how Mississippi licenses its providers than about what is available to you.

15 is a small enough number that availability, not choice, will decide how quickly you are seen. Licences are issued at state level, so the practical pool is usually wider than this page shows: 2,807 licensed therapists are registered across Mississippi, and many practices now offer appointments by video. The towns listed further down are the next places to look.

These counts come from the federal NPI registry. A provider appears here if they hold an active NPI with a practice address in this area — it does not mean they are currently accepting new clients, and the registry does not record insurance, fees or availability.