I Want To Be A Physical Therapist

Someone who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy has weak muscles, but that also means they have slow reflexes and brittle bones. When my brother was about 16, he slipped in some water and didn’t catch himself and fell. The next morning, my parents took him to the ER to find out he had broken both of his legs and would have to undergo surgery. After his surgery, he was in a wheelchair for a few months so his legs would heal. That summer, my family took a trip to Huntington Beach and my brother could almost completely walk without the wheelchair by this time. The first day, my brother, my dad, and I were walking down the hall to our room and my dad was pushing the chair behind my brother so when his legs got tired he could sit. About ten steps down the hall, my brother fell and my dad rushed around to help him up. My

I want to be a medical assistant because I love helping people and I want to make a difference. I hope my smile will be contagious and actually help someone through their day. There is so much hurt and pain in the world and too many people turning their backs on each other. A little kindness, happiness, and love can go a long way. I may only be me, but I refuse to give up and sometimes it only takes one to make a difference. I will strive to be the best and expect more. Patients need more than a treatment plan because they also need to be surrounded by hope, confidence, and respect. I want others to not be afraid to lead by example and prove that being a CMA (AAMA) is the greatest medical profession one can be. Becoming a Certified Medical

“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.

From a young age, I have always wanted to understand other people’s thoughts and feelings. As I have grown older, I have grown even more curious about not only understanding people, but learning how to help them. With this guiding me, my future career goal is to become an Occupational Therapist. Occupational Therapists work with a wide variety of people to help them overcome obstacles in their lives in order to achieve a better quality of life. I specifically hope to work with young children, adolescents, and teens who suffer from emotional, mental, or cognitive impairments. This is due to growing up in a family who fostered challenged children, having siblings with their own challenges, and having many young friends who could have benefitted

Intro to Health Occupations opened my eyes to the many, many amazing healthcare career choices that there are. After completing a two week long career project, I was certain that my answer to the question was, “I want to be a physician’s assistant!” I have seen how much healthcare workers have positively impacted people, and that also really helped me to figure out “what I want to be when I grow up.”

"We should live to give to others, rather than, live to receive from others,” are the words that my wise seventh grade English teacher repeated in class, while nudging at my chair to sit up and pay attention. Not knowing these simple words would impact and change my perception on life in many ways. First, I have learned to be dedicated and to never give up. Second, I have learned to have determination to walk through the wilderness, with uncertainty and to rely on God. Third, I have learned to have perseverance to push through the unfortunate events that have occurred during my academic career. I appreciate the reader of my essay, for giving my application a chance, to provide a binocular view of my individuality. Welcome to a brief story of

In my navigation through life, I have narrowed down my career paths to two choices. The first choice being becoming a physical therapist, and the second choice being becoming a veterinarian. I would like to be a physical therapist because I am familiar with the type of work they do and enjoy helping people get back on the feet achieve their goal of recovery. I would like to specialize in helping athletes to recover as I myself know how important it is for athletes to recover quickly, and, more importantly, to receive the correct treatment to prevent a single injury that can be rehabilitated from becoming a life long issue. My overall goal would be to one day own my own practice. I also can see myself becoming a veterinarian to study and learn

My ultimate career goal is to become a physical therapist for athletes or adolescences. Over the years, I have aspired to become a physical therapist because it is my passion to help others and to make a difference in the lives of others. This goal of becoming a physical therapist has developed over time. During high school, I used to spend some time in the athletic training room due to playing football and the various injuries that I’ve obtained. I had a unique athletic trainer Mr. Palmer. He taught me life lessons that school could not teach me. He taught how to be a selfless individual. His passion for his job and helping others fueled my passion and it moves me to want to help others. Although he was an athletic trainer,

Some say that PT stands for physical therapist; others might say that it stands for physical terrorists. People who say it stands for physical terrorists are usually the people who have been patients before. Patients call it physical terror because in physical therapy you use different exercises that usually will make the area that they are doing the therapy for hurt in order to help it recover to its full range of motion. The career I want to pursue is physical therapy, in order to understand this profession you need to learn about the work environment, education needed, earnings, outlook, and the pros and cons of this career.

Have you ever wondered where people get help to make it easier to move after an injury? They go to the physical therapist. I've always wanted to be a Physical therapist and help people out .Physical therapy was made to help people get into better shape when they get injured. This occupation helps many people in many ways. Physical therapist are very important in the health career field.

I want to major in exercise physiology in order to later become a physical therapist. I’ve been asked so many times why I want to work in that field, and after a lot of considering I can’t give just one answer. I interned at Physical Therapy and Hand Specialists for a semester and I loved interacting with people everyday. I love learning about the human body and being able to help people. Everyday was a learning experience, but it never felt like work. I’m eager to major in exercise physiology, because it’s the first step in becoming a physical

When I was a freshman in high school, I took my first Health Occupations class and loved every second of it. It was intriguing and understandable; it made me confirm that I wanted to go into healthcare as a career. Because of this class, I discovered my true passion is to go into prosthetics and orthotics. There was no huge defining moment in my life that made me want to become a prosthetist and orthotist, but there was one book that I believe changed my future for the better. I was given was an outdated book of medical careers and was able to keep the book to look through it at home. I remember turning to page sixty seven and finding the most interesting career: prosthetics and orthotics.

The time it took for me to get to the hospital for doctors to relocate my knees to their rightful place felt like an eternity but was only about an hour in a half. After that I had to do, and still do at my house, physical therapy and learn how to walk all over again without any braces, canes, crutches or a walker to support my knees and keep them from dislocating again. In this painful process I also developed RSD/CRSP, or Reflux Pain Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome/ Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, which is when your nerves are hyper sensitive to touch and causes extreme pain. I also developed Bursitis, which is bursa inflammation or inflammation under the muscle that pushes against the bones and causes pain as my physical therapist explained it. I am in constant pain but when I think I can’t go any further or I want to give up I look to the Lord and keep faith because I know that God has a plan for doing this and He wants me to know that He carries me when I can’t go any more and teaches me

I would like to become a physical therapist because I have seen what physical therapists do first hand. My grandmother and two of my aunts are physical therapists currently. They have told me about the different aspects of the occupation which started my interest in becoming one myself. During middle school I went to physical therapy for a knee injury. i got to see first hand what physical therapists do and talked one that was doing their clinical at that particular place. In 8th grade I spent a day shadowing a physical therapist who was doing an preliminary examination on a patient. During my second semester this year I plan to intern at a physical therapy facility. I am very excited for this opportunity and I believe through my prior knowledge

I was born with Fibular Hemimelia, a condition that leaves my left leg significantly shorter than my right leg. To decrease the length discrepancy, I have had countless surgeries between the ages of 8-14, which placed me in the hospital for long periods of time. These were very challenging times where I had to manage my pain, parents, and school. The only way to fix my medical condition was through leg lengthening or amputations. I decided to have leg lengthenings, which meant that I pulled my bones apart a cm every day and had 21 rods through my leg. I didn’t handle the pain the best at first — I would scream and refuse to move. However, because of other things going on I had to suck it up. While I was in the hospital handling pain I also