Being A Physical Therapist Has Done You Know What You Are Doing But After Graduation?

The job I plan on pursuing with kinesiology as my major is to become a physical therapist, which is also known as PT. Their main duty is helping patients rehabilitate with disabling injuries such as fractures, arthritis and low-back pain. Their duty is to help patients their relieve pain, increase mobility, and decrease long-term physical disabilities. Physical therapists focus on the evaluation of strength, balance, range of motion, co-ordination, endurance, and posture of each individual patient. Their patients can range from different age groups from infants to grandparents. The age group would provide a variety of therapeutic exercises for each of the health issues they would have. Depending

As seniors in high-school we are always asked about what career we want to pursuit,and where we want to take our lives. I began thinking about what I like and what subjects I was good at. I found out I loved math and science and was good at them too. Then I knew that the health field was really for me. I began searching for ways for me to see if I really liked it, so I applied to go to scrubs health camp at Augsburg college near my house. I really liked it and saw that my love for kids had me leaning to becoming a pediatrician. I had my doubts on that also because of the number of years of schooling, and one day I stumbled upon a pediatric nurse practitioner occupation and began reading about it. I loved it so much that

Way back when I first started college, my priorities were not clear. I knew I wanted to do something that I can be proud of, it was only a matter of what do I really want that will fill my life and complete me as a person. I was in the manufacturing field since I was 19 years old and yet, I felt a hole in my heart. I got to a point where I stop growing as an individual and it became apparent that I wanted to do something more significant. That void became the fuel to pursue something bigger and life changing. I tried to dig deep and really tried to figure out what I want in life and at the same time I started taking classes that can go towards any degree in the medical field. Taking care of people has always been a part of me. I took care of

“What do you want to be when you graduate high school?,” my mother asked me. She has asked me this specific question my entire life but today she wanted an answer. I was seventeen, only a month away until my eighteenth birthday, so it was time for me to make a decision. I told her I did not know and she started to list a bunch of career options I could pursue. She continue to go on and on then, she said Occupational Therapist. My mom described to me what Occupational Therapist did and their job responsibilities. That is when I decided that this is the career for me. I am driven to become an Occupational Therapist because I want to provide for my future family, and to grow spiritually and mentally in the process.

When asked what I want to do with my life, my answer is simply to help others. Although this answer is one would expect to hear from just about anyone, I have always been encouraged by mentors and parents to do what I love. In my case, helping others brings me a great deal of satisfaction. The human body and how it is able to adapt has always been a fascination of mine, and from a young age I identified the health care field as an ideal fit for my interests in medicine, as well as my passion for helping others. With these two drives in mind, I found myself at the age of sixteen with a career goal in mind: Occupational Therapy.

While the idea of being a physician assistant or a physical therapist isn’t a bad one at all, I always felt that somehow, something was always missing. I was missing an objective. I was missing what I really wanted to do as a physician assistant. The practice of curing and assisting people without exposing how to prevent future outcomes of illnesses and the spread of diseases to them didn’t really sit well with me at all. I began to doubt my potential future career choice as a physician assistant in general. They say variety is the spice of life; although I knew and loved the knowledge of assisting a medical physician, it was the serious lack of variety within that specific field and the limited options of growth that gave me heavy thoughts day in and day out. I wanted a career that would enable me to help a large amount of people, help place a heavy emphasis on prevention and care, and also challenge me continually to motivate and improve myself. Seeing that I no longer had an interest in being a physician assistant as I initially intended, my thoughts and passion quickly gravitated towards the area of public health, particularly

That is when we settled on Physical Therapy Assistant, the amount of school was just right and the field fit my personality and my need to help and educate people. Not too long after this revelation a good friend opened her own physcial therapy office and I got to shadow there for a little bit. It helped me get a feel of the enviroemtn and what would be needed from me. I now work as a tech at one of the Agape Physical Therapy clinics, and it has been one of the most fulfilling jobs I have ever had. Though there is the mundane work such as laundry and cleaning I know my hard work is appriciated. I keep eberything running smoothly and I help out the PTA and the PT when they are back logged with patients. The PT and the PTA always make sure I understand the excersices I am doing and why they are beneficial for this certain patient. If working as tech is fulfilling, I can only imagine how much more so it will be when I get my degree as a

Growing up I always knew I wanted something more than just a “job”. I wanted a career that would be rewarding and encompass a combination of my talents and interests. As a child, I dreamed of being a doctor, mechanical engineer, nurse, dental hygienist, and teacher. It was not until my freshman year of college that I took a good look at career choices. After hearing about occupational therapy, I did a great deal of research to find out what it was, what the therapists did, who they worked with, and the influence they had on the lives of others. As I continued through my college experience, occupational therapy always remained at the top of my list of possible careers. I began to see that it was a perfect combination of all the things I wanted to be when I grew up. I could work as a healthcare professional, help people in need, problem solve, and bring light and hope into people’s lives. Observing several different occupational therapists has confirmed that this is the career for me.

As my high school career comes to an end, I am about to take the first step into the next stage of my life. My fellow classmates and I have been asked for many years, "What do you want to study in college?" and "What career would you like to pursue?" Also for many years, we have been asking some equally as difficult questions: "Why are we learning this?" or "When are we ever going to use this in the real world?" After a lot of consideration, I have decided to study to become a physical therapist (PT), and I have realized the importance of the seemingly "useless" information that I have learned during my time at EHS.

During my sophomore in high school at Wausau East, my parents told me that in a couple years, I was going to college and I needed to start thinking about what I want to do for a living. I knew right away that it was going to be something dealing with healthcare, but what specifically, I did not know. There was, however, a class titled Young Adult Medicine that was all about exploring occupations in the healthcare field and it lit a fire beneath my big decision. On one of the tours and job shadows that my classmates and I went on, this one in particular was to the Sport and Spine Clinic in Wausau. Every second we got to witness just a sneak peek of what a physical therapist job is like, the more I was intrigued by it and I began to ask myself

My career plan primarily starts with graduating from high school. Once I walk across the stage May 2017 I plan to further my education. I plan on getting accepted to my dream college Winthrop. I will major in Biology. I will take the pre-physical therapy program that the biology department offers. After completing my four years I will then move on to graduate school in order to be a certified physical therapist. I’m well aware that becoming a physical therapist is very competitive and requires hard work. I fully understand that it will not come easy. After spending up to 4 more years in college I will finally become a physical therapist. Going to school for physical therapy is basically like medical school. Medical school and physical therapy

When graduation started to come around, deciding what I wanted to for the rest of my life still wasn’t clear to me. I was looking for that one perfect career where I could support myself and not have to depend on anyone else financially. After getting frustrated and feeling like I wasn’t going to find what I wanted to do, my dad talked to me about physical therapy and told me what benefits would come out at the end when I was done with school. He talked to me about one of his cousins who is currently employed and how great she is doing.

Right now you are most likely working at the job you have wanted since you were in the sixth grade. So how is being a Physical Therapist? I already know the answer, absolutely wonderful. You are probably working with as many children as you possibly can just so they can get back on the field and play the sport that they have come to love. I bet seeing the smile one those children’s faces when you tell them that they can return to play is the best feeling in the entire world. I can’t wait to experience it for myself. I know with no doubt that you employed at either a high school, middle school, or either opened your own clinic just so you could work with kids.

When first starting my undergraduate studies at Saint Francis University, my intentions were originally to get a doctorate in physical therapy with a bachelors in exercise physiology because I thought exercise physiology would complement it well. During my junior year I started to grow a passion for exercise physiology that only grew stronger through the rest of my undergraduate studies. By the time I finished my upper level courses of my undergraduate program I began to realize that I was no longer as interested in physical therapy as much as I once was. I took a few weeks and really reflected on what I truly wanted to do without worrying about what other people think or how much money would be made compared to other jobs. During this reflecting period I discovered several things: I was letting my parents’ guide my life and wasn’t making career choices on what would make me truly happy, the experiences I have had with training individuals and helping them live a healthier life made me truly happy, working in clinical settings and in the lab at Saint Francis University never felt like work and was always enjoyable, Whatever I decide to do I want to be helping people, and that I had a deep connection to individuals with cancer.

After becoming part of Wingate I have noticed that I have been exposed to new ideas and I have been able to create my own opinions and thoughts of certain things. Surrounding myself with people I have never met in a new environment. Learning their stories and their interests made me think about my life and my interests. I never really knew what I wanted to major in or do for the rest of my life after college. I was never really sure what would interest me and once I started college it was kind of hard to know if I would enjoy working with whatever job I could get with the major I chose. After taking some health science classes in high school I thought maybe a career in the health field would match my interests. However, after being in college I questioned myself whether if this is what I really wanted to do. How would I