Physical Therapy Journey

Patients can be treated in either an inpatient or outpatient setting. This normally depends on the severity of their injury or illness. A patient who has suffered a stroke, for example will be treated

Physical Therapist Assistants are a necessity to help patients in their recovery process due to surgery or injury. As stated by Barbra Bradford with the History Makers, “The journey of Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) has not

Reading from the article-“Celebrating a Milestone-35 years of PTAs” published by Michele Wojciechowski on 1 Feb. 2004, I feel proud that I am now in the Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) Program. The author has outlined several timelines of achieving status in American Physical Therapy Association and National Assembly also, how PTAs achieved their own value. Even after passionate 2 year associate program, I am disappointed to see that PTA program is no longer a stepping stone for Physical Therapist (PT) program.

Journey Physical Therapy is a full-service physical therapy clinic that is located in Chicago, Illinois. Journey Physical Therapy is an independent physical therapy practice. This physical therapy clinic serves the Roscoe Village and beyond. Journey Physical Therapy specializes in spine care, orthopedic care, post-surgery, sports rehab, and chronic pain. Their spine care services include sciatica, radiculopathy, herniated disks, degenerative disk disease, spinal stenosis, facet joint arthritis, sacroiliac joint pain, spinal fusion and other spinal surgeries, and more. Their orthopedic care services include neck pain, back pain, patellofemoral pain syndrome, achilles tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, osteoarthritis, shoulder labral tears, hip labral

Whilst working in the Rehab ward at St Vincent’s encouraging patients to mobilise using clear and concise communication to ensure the ambulation of the patient

As a PTA I have been given a breath of knowledge in regard to the profession of physical therapy. However, I am not satisfied with this breath of knowledge. I yearn for the opportunity to gain a further understanding in terms of “how and why” physical therapy is successful at restoring function to individuals seeking

I feel so ready to enter the physical therapy field as PTA. I’m proficient with the implementation of patient care, progressing patients within their plan of care and adjusting patient treatment to ensure patient safety. I feel that all the clinical rotations have allowed me to practice what I have learned throughout the PTA program. I need to continue learning and improving my patient

PTA’s assist physical therapists for people of all ages, from newborns to the oldest people. They help with medical problems and anything that enables them to walk, or move around regularly (Gardner). Although being a physical therapist assistant seems like an easier route, there are many drawbacks and issues concerning this career path. The first major concern that sticks out is the physical demands and the hours spent while working. Previously, I mentioned that there are many different people that the physical therapist assistant works with, such as people of all ages and people that have various problems.

To achieve such promising success, the rehab hospital have gone through so much change and development over the past decades. We see the rehab hospital have developed a positivity and empowered skills, and for traits, they are a visionary and ambitious. Positivity gives patient the trust, happiness, strength, and confidence to improve and recover much faster than nation average recovery percentage. Empowered give the patient the strength and confident to thrive for better result and independence. Patients want to feel all these positivity that can make an impact in them, giving the sense of comfort of home than the hospital. I’ve made a few visited and witness the outcome myself why and how patients can recover so fast and extraordinary all because to the atmosphere that surround them. The positive energy and empowered trigger the patient's mind to be active and morale to function better and adapt with the treatments offer at the hospital faster. Moreover, the hospital focus on patients emotion and visual a solution to turn the bad thing to good things, in which, I see it to be ambitious as they focus on healing a patient physical and mental health. The skills and traits as what define them to the patient, allowing themselves to seek high accomplished with the trust from the patients put on their shoulders and help provided the best cares and services to help the patients regain their ability

As a collegiate woman, I aspire to have an opportunity to work within the school system, continue to participate in after school programs, and develop a scholarship fund. My physical therapy degree would allow me to work in different environments, one in which can be in a school setting. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is a federal law that supports free and appropriate public education to children regardless of their disability. As long as the school has an individualized education plan on file for each disabled student, related services, including physical therapy, are covered under the IDEA. As a vital part of the special education team, I would be able to influence students by promoting motor development skills and participation

I learned that patients’ and clients’ conditions affect their emotional, psychological, and physical well-being and many aspects of their lives such as home, work, and school. Patients in inpatient rehab face another factor: time away from their loved ones, pets, and home. For example, I spoke with a patient who had injured her spinal cord and expected to be discharged the next day after spending some weeks in inpatient rehab. We discussed her eagerness to return home for a few minutes. Rather than overwhelm her with questions about her injury, I asked, what was the first thing she planned to do when she went home?

I was born and raised in Salisbury, MD and went to James M. Bennett High school. I have always loved the Eastern Shore and decided to stick around for college. I graduated from Salisbury University in December of 2015 with my Bachelors' in Exercise Science Allied Health Track. While in college, I was fortunate enough to get an amazing internship at a Physical Therapy clinic in Berlin, MD. A few months later I was hired as a Physical Therapy Tech.

I feel there are various aspects of my persona that are applicable and would be beneficial to my success as a physical therapist. Some of which include my extensive interest in the human body, my background in sport and exercise, as well as my experience in sports rehabilitation as a patient, my current professional abilities as a physical therapist assistant, and my desire to be personable and create positive change in people's lives. I began to have an interest in the field at a younger age with my high school anatomy class in which I found myself enjoying the most out of the majority of the courses I went through in my high school years, and it was there I got my first in depth look at the field of physical therapy, when a therapist from the local hospital-owned clinic came in to lecture, field questions and demonstrate a mock evaluation. I feel the interest I had in the subject propelled me to shift my career focus to something pertaining to the human body and aided me in having a heightened understanding of related course work through my college curriculum.

In particular, the program at Wingate University shares my appreciation for fieldwork as it offers clinical education and experience in each year of the curriculum. I have experienced unique situations during my time spent volunteering in clinics and working as a rehab tech that I could not have experienced in any other way. In particular, my appreciation for applying the knowledge and skills that will be learned in school must be easily translated into the clinic. During me time spent with different therapists and patients, I have come to value the need for excellence in the clinic. Every individual provides a new experience in the field and developing the application skills needed is an experience that I want to be able to utilize in future clinical rotations.

( Brown &Hardy, 2007) The assessment depends on knowing not only what the patient's present state is but who he was, who he is and how he got there. Thus the doctor (and other professionals) should if possible see patients and relatives in their own environment and [listen] to talk about things that matter to them. In this way rehabilitation can be based both on realism and on sensitivity to the individual's personality and wishes.