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Being a physical therapist is a mix of healthcare, and coaching we help people recover movement, reduce pain, help them to restart a sport or work after injury, or thing of every day like walking, cooking, or just living independently.
Working with patients who have limits use of their own bodies do to injury, age or disability. We build flexibility, strength, and spirit. The goals are to reduce patient pain to increase their range of motion, and give them back their sense of self-determination.
There is no typical day for a physical therapist, but it's a mix of patient car, movement coaching and plan treatments. In the morning, we check schedule and patients notes to know who we will see and plan the treatment for each patient. After it depend on were you worked, but you can wait for them to come at the clinic, you can go see them at their house or in a CHSLD you can go see them in their room.
Physical therapists can work in rehabilitation centers, in private clinics, in hospitals, in long-term care facilities, in sports setting like a gym, in school, in research and teaching, in home care, or in specialized clinics
To be a physical therapist you have to do three years of college in the tecnic of physical readaptation.
A physical therapist is paid between 31,25 for an hour and 54,91 for an hour. The average salary for a year is $91 700
Physical therapists have many choices to get additional training like specializations, advance their career, knew formation and improve skills.
The principal dangers of being a physical therapist is to be injured by lifting or supporting patient like in hospital, by doing repetitive movement and awkward position. Another danger is to risk causing injury when you do a treatment. You can also be stressed, or become sick easily with every patient you see.
There is a really low chance that physical therapists could be chances by robots because they can't have our judgment, there is also hands-on treatment that they can't do and every patient react differently, and we can adjust based on pain.
Physical therapists retire at 65 years old, but about one-third of physical therapists continue working after 65 years old.
I am at the end of my second year of my program of 3 years. I think I'm not going to university after college. I will finish my second and third class of massotherapist after my program.
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