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Physical Therapy, Is This A Career For You?

By Jimmy Woodall

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Published: 23Oct2009
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Having a career in physical therapy can be a challenging one. Patients are everywhere you look, so it should be a very rewarding career as well. So if you feel this is for you give it a try, it certainly will not take long to discover whether it is meant for you.

Being a physical therapist is of course a very challenging career, as well as fulfilling. You are in a position to make better lives for you patients. So you will quickly learn to enjoy doing the different treatments as well as evaluating, diagnosing and treating disorders.

You will find you have three options available to you if you are going to have a career in this field. You can go ahead and become a full therapist or you can a therapy assistant, and if not that then you could work as a physical therapist aide. Mostly you will find the differences are within the licensing requirements that will vary a considerable amount for each path you might choose.

Usually the therapist will develop the a treatment plan and see to it that it is carried until all goals are completed. The treatments usually focus on improving mobility as well relieving pain anfd then restoring mobility.

A therapist determines a patients ability to be independent and be able to re-assume his duties at work as well as at home. The therapist will also explain the expected outcomes and benefits to the patient.

The educational requirements of a physical therapist requires that he has earned a masters degree or as doctorate degree in the field of study. Of course he will study biomechanism, neuro-anatomy, physics, chemistry and biology. As well as others required in different states.

After all of the above he must also be able to pass a licensing exam in order to become a licensed practicing physical therapist.

The assistants are the ones who carry out the plan according to what the physical therapist has pre-determined to be needed by each patient under his/her care. Usually a combination of several stimulations, exercises, massages, electrical stimulations, paraffin baths, hot and cold packs, traction and ultrasound.

In order to become an assistant Therapist you need to have earned an associate degree from an accredited physical therapist program. Which requires algebra, anatomy, psychology, biology, and chemistry. The aides work under the discretion of the Therapist and his assistant.

When involved in this thing called physical therapists as with the other fields of medicine, the driving factor is the ability to help patients. So if you are going to enter this field you will need lots of preparation for the challenges that lie ahead.

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