The Hard Working Therapists: A Career In Physical Therapy

The Hard Working Therapists

A significant amount of people are misinformed about physical therapy. These people look at physical therapy as something you do to help heal a body part back to its normal stage before the incident or injury happened. In reality this is not the only job of a physical therapist their careers are much more than just that. First of all their chosen career is to be a healthcare profession that assists a patient in diagnosing and treating their medical condition that is immobilizing the patient’s movement. It seems like physical therapists only have two jobs diagnosing and treating but that is not the case. In their career there are different types of jobs. For example, physical therapists have to design

Each of those are really important for the physical therapy life. Compassion is what is mostly needed when the therapist is assisting a patient. Detail oriented is when physical therapists should have strong analytic and observational skills to diagnose a patient's problem, evaluate treatments, and provide safe, effective care. Dexterity is when therapists use their hands to provide manual therapy and therapeutic exercises. Interpersonal skills is when therapists must be able to explain treatment programs, motivate patients, and listen to patients' concerns to provide effective therapy. Physical stamina is when they use physical exercises with the patients and enjoy using their feet. Resourcefulness is when they must be flexible and able to adapt plans of care to meet the needs of each

About 1 of 4 worked part time in 2012. Although most therapists work during normal business hours, some may work evenings or weekends. You need a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree to become a therapist. All states require Physical therapists to be licensed. DPT programs are usually 3 years but they require a bachelors degree for admission as well as you majoring in physiology, biology, chemistry, and physics. Theirs an application service called Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service (PTCAS) which is required by mostly all DPT programs for admission.

This topic that I’m picking relates to an economic topic called supply and demand. Supply and demand is defined as the amount of a commodity, product, or service available and the desire of buyers for it, considered as factors regulating its price. This relates to physical therapy because it talks about how much money they make, how hard it is to be a therapists, and is also talking about how the job can scale up and down by who can do the job right or