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Essay On Being A Physical Therapist

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After looking at all of my skills sets and interests. The first career that I will choosing is being a Physical Therapist. I have chosen this career because I was not really sure what I wanted to be but since I like being active, I thought that being a physical therapist might be a good idea . I think I will be successful at it because if I like to help people and I myself I like to gain and build muscle so that will motivate me to help them. Well at the moment I work at a nursing home as a receptionist and we have a physical therapy department in there. So I don 't really have experience, but I have seen how they do their work. Physical Therapy is key to recovery for patients. They work with patients to regain movement or manage pain. Physical …show more content…

You have to pay very close attention to where the patient 's pain is and what movement makes it happen. You have to be good with your hands you will have to use your hands to move the patient 's body. You have to be able to communicate either if you are going to deliver good news or bad news. You will need strength and stamina you will have to be able to lift patients and be on your feet all the time, so you will need to be able to be moving all the time. The benefits of being a physical therapist is being highly educated experts in the movement and function of the human body. Some of the cons that this job has will be before you even get it. Which would be paying off of your student loans. But the pro that outweighs that would be that the pay that you get yearly after your done so you would be able pay it off soon and still get your money. You will have to be able to work with patients that sometime will not cooperate because of pain but the outcome of that would be soon as they fully recover they might become an good friend of yours. But there are not many cons to this job but there are a lot of pros. The plans that I have to pursue are basically the regular goals but as

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