Physical Therapy Research Papers

Physical Therapist 1. What occupation catches your eye? Physical therapy is so fascinating working with different parts of the body and the way they function. They have so many responsibilities, satisfactions, financial rewards, and job openings in this occupation. Becoming a physical therapist caught my eye right away. I love helping people and I am super interested in helping people overcome certain injuries. In 7th grade, I developed severe hip tendinitis during track season. Physical therapy was the exact thing that helped me get back into physical activities. Being around that atmosphere and watching the physical therapists work really interested me. Each time I went, I became more and more intrigued with the field. Physical therapists
see so many different patients with different kinds of injuries. It is a new battle each day. Ever since then, I have known that I want to be a physical therapist.
2. Physical therapists are licensed to inflict pain and torture in the name of good health and better mobility. They pummel, massage, knead, and repurpose the bones and muscles of the sick, the injured, and the disabled of the Earth. The goal of physical therapists is to jack up the strength and flexibility of patients who have reduced mobility because of an injury, illness, or disability. When they're not poking and prodding, the physical therapist will be devising and modifying the plan of action for the patient, assessing a patient's progress, and checking out new treatments (Shmoop.com). When I continuously went to physical therapy, it changed every week. The stretches got harder, the exercises got harder, and how hard the physical therapist pushed me got harder. The physical therapists were my biggest supporters and they truly made me dedicate myself to getting better. 3. Physical therapists come in all sizes, shapes, and colors, and toil in just as many specialties. Some stick with hospitals, medical clinics, and nursing homes; others work in private offices, like sports medicine clinics. Still others are their own bosses, owning their own practices (Shmoop.com). The place I went for physical therapy was a business where the physical therapists were their own bosses. It is ¨Physical Therapy¨ in Durant. It is 100% focused on helping their patients in any way they can.
4. The training involves more than acing "Brute Force 101." Studies involve heavy-duty subjects like biomechanics, calculus, statistics, chemistry, and nutrition. Academic requirements aside, physical therapists may have to do fieldwork, which is up to the instructor´s discretion. And before physical therapists work over their first patient as a professional, they have a bachelor's degree and a state license (Shmoop.com). DHS offers certain math and science classes, like calculus, statistics, anatomy, and chemistry, that would start to prepare students for this occupation. DHS also offers health classes to begin getting into the health field. Taking these certain classes and doing well will help prepare kids for their future.
Tulsa University, which is the college I will be attending, has a great program to prepare for the medical field of physical therapy. 5.The Exercise and Sports Science degree program at TU has the flexibility to prepare students for healthcare graduate or professional programs such as medicine, athletic training, physical therapy, cardiac rehabilitation and other fields closely related to exercise science. The science foundation of the Bachelor of Science in Exercise and Sports Science degree is complemented by practical application. Students majoring in exercise and sports science complete internships tailored to their specific career goals before graduating (¨Exercise and Sports Science Undergraduate Program¨). DHS provides the organization HOSA which allows students to get started in the physical therapy career. Participating in HOSA all throughout high school will most definitely help prepare students for their future in this occupation.
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Working at an office for physical therapists, the hours could consist of ten hours a day for four days a week. Arriving at work around 7:00a.m to make sure everything is ready to go for the day, the first patient would arrive at 8:00a.m. The work may consist of soft tissue work, ultrasound, reviewing home exercises, and stretching. Each session would be one hour and the physical therapist would just keep rolling until noon, which is their lunchtime break. During that break, the physical therapists may have to begin dealing with insurance forms. After that hour of break is over, it is back to work for three more hours with patients. Around 4:00p.m, which is their last hour, the physical therapists could use that time to look at more paperwork and start the patient progress notes (Shmoop.com). Depending where a physical therapist works, they can have pretty flexible hours and not too long of days. The physical therapy field is great all the way
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Employment of physical therapists is expected to grow 27 percent in the next ten years, much faster than the average for all occupations. The long-run demand for physical therapists should continue to rise as new treatments and techniques expand the scope of physical therapy practices. Moreover, demand will be spurred by the increasing numbers of individuals with disabilities or limited function (¨Occupation Profile for Physical Therapists¨). The advancement in this occupation is blossoming and will continue to blossom. Physical therapists are needed everywhere. 8. PTs do a lot of heavy lifting—moving patients, manipulating multiple body parts, bending, stooping, squatting, standing. A PT's constant physical activity is extremely taxing and heightens the risk that they themselves will get injured. A patient could give in to frustration during an inversion on a machine and hurt you out of anger and mistake. It's important to stay in shape and be very careful and conscientious (Shmoop.com). Physical therapists more than likely will not get hurt, but it is better to know the health hazards of the job. Much better to be safe than
sorry. 9. Some skills that a physical therapist needs consist of understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents, talking to others to convey information effectively, actively looking for ways to help people, and giving full attention to what other people are saying. It also consists of taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, monitoring and assessing performance of other individuals to make improvements or take corrective action, considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one, and managing one's own time and the time of others (OK Career Guide.org). Physical therapy is an up-close-and-personal line of work. Compassion, empathy, and communication are just as important to success and longevity in the field as technical skills. If you get along with your patients and staff, and you see that you're on top of all the new bells and whistles in the field (new techniques and treatments), then you should be good as gold (Shmoop.com). Physical therapy is almost like being a coach. The physical therapist pushes their patient to be the best they can be, encouraging them every step of the way. There are just so many interesting parts and aspects regarding this field. 10. There's glory to be had in a job well done. Physical therapists start out with patients who can't walk, sit, stand, or even move. They work with patients who've been in intractable pain for many moons. When they are finished with each patient, and their patients can again face life free of pain and infirmity, all because of the PT´s work with them, physical therapists and their ego swell with pride and glory rains down upon them from their clients, as well as their friends and colleagues (Shmoop.com). There is an amazing feeling like no other that people get from the satisfaction of truly helping someone. Physical therapists are life changers. 11. However, stress and frustration are big components in a