Across Disciplines: According to APTA‚ to become a physical therapist‚ you need to have a Doctor of Physical Therapy‚ which takes up to about 3 years. Ethics: You are a therapist‚ and your job is help your patient. How much pain or issues they are going to have with a certain part of your body is in your hands. In this career‚ they
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Questions 1. Physical activity is muscular movement of the body that results in significant energy expenditure above the rising metabolism. Exercise is structured physical activity that focuses on improving or maintains physical capacity. Physical fitness is a developed physical capacity that enables people to perform routine physical tasks with vigor‚ participate in a variety of physical activities‚ and reduce their risk for multiple‚ inactivity-related chronic diseases. Physical activity refers
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Where do I see myself professionally? I see myself professionally in a field to become a physical therapy. I say this because I have a big heart and I enjoy trying to make people’s lives easier and try to make people achieve their goals Also I enjoy taking care of people for example I take care of my mother a lot because she is a paraplegic and I am usually the one that gets her medicine for her and takes her to her doctor’s appointment also I also take care of her alot when she is sick and I try
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The career I decided to learn about was a physical therapist. This is because they do a lot of helping around in our community helping those who came back from injury. A physical therapist is someone who provides services that help restore function‚ improve mobility‚ relieve pain‚ and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities of patients with injuries or disease. For this job there must be a lot of patience because it usually takes a long period of time for someone to fully recuperate. Workers
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Physical therapists have other ways they improve the patient’s physical ability during these sessions. One common exercise patients do during physical therapy is treadmill exercise. If this therapy is consistently done the patients speed‚ strength and other mobile activities are improved. Further studies done by Movement Disorder stated‚ “Rhythmicity and endurance training‚ such as treadmill exercise (with and without body weight support and cueing) and pedaling (Ellis et al. 2005; Cakit et al. 2007;
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Physical Therapy is used to help with many problems someone may face. Walking‚ talking‚ and writing are very important in everyday life. However‚ one that is hardly talked about is balance problems. Balance problems affect many people yet they do not know they have it or how to treat it. Balance problems are conditions that make you feel dizzy‚ lightheaded‚ or nauseous. Balance problems are commonly caused by health conditions‚ muscle weakness‚ joint stiffness‚ heart conditions‚ or problems in
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like without repercussion. Rather‚ I was once an obese teenager on the verge of developing metabolic conditions. This lead too many frustrating experiences that stemmed from my inability to perform gross motor tasks. Like many Americans who need Physical Therapy this life style led to a life event where I injured myself. I had a choice: I could complete the recovery procedures while continuing to live the way that caused the injury‚ or I could get serious about my health and change my reality. Fortunately
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Physical therapists have used “hydrotherapy” as a passive therapeutic intervention for many years‚ with equipment such as whirlpools.9 “Aquatic Physical Therapy” refers to active interventions performed in the water. The aquatic environment is used to provide weight relief to the body‚ antigravity positioning‚ and increased resistance as therapeutic tools. Aquatic PT also provides multiple sensory stimuli through buoyancy‚ relative density‚ water temperature‚ viscosity‚ resistance‚ and vestibular
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learning about how the body works. This discipline interests me because through applying my knowledge about the body I can ultimately help people when I become a physical therapist. Physical therapists help patients learn about their condition and teach them different techniques so that they can minimize their pain and return to their original physical condition. My current undergraduate major is recreational therapy with allows me to practice working with patients and is teaching me how to build a relationship
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many adults and children are facing. Obesity can be harmful to the physical body and even more so on the finances of a country. Jamie Oliver goes on about how‚ “Obesity cost about 10% in healthcare which equals to $150 billion.” (Oliver‚2010) The cost to deal with people who are obese puts a real strain on finances to the government. Obesity doesn’t just harm bodies but on the economy too. The affects obesity has on the physical body are unnerving.
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