If PT school is right around the corner for you, you may find yourself wondering if there’s any specific gear or PT equipment that you’ll need to own. If you’re anything like me when I went through PT school, money will be extremely tight and purchasing/investing in equipment will be something that you don’t want to spend a ton of …
How New PT Graduates Can Write a Better Resume: Important Tips
Congrats on getting through PT school and passing your board exam(s)! Whether you had the time of your life or hated every moment of it, your next step is looking to find employment as a newly minted physical therapist. If you can make it through PT school and the board exam, then you certainly can find work within your chosen …
How to Prepare for Your First Physical Therapy Appointment
If you have a physical therapy appointment booked and are wondering what you might need to do in order to prepare for your initial session, this article has you covered. While there likely isn’t too much to prepare for when it comes to your first physical therapy appointment, there are a few key things you can (and should) do in …
Can Physical Therapy Help Me Lose Weight?
Physical health is a pretty big deal. As you likely know, being overweight can have detrimental effects on your physical well-being. What you might not likely know is that many physical therapists are pretty good at helping you implement changes to you physical activity in ways that can help you lose weight (and subsequently prevent further pain and injury). Physical …
How Can Physical Therapy Help with Balance Issues?
Balance is one of those many things in life that we take for granted with our body. Once we begin to experience balance issues however, we can be reminded just how much we depend on our balance to get us safely and effectively through each and every day. Balance issues can arise for a number of different reasons and can …
Amputations and Prosthetics: How Physical Therapists Help Amputees
Amputations within the United States are more common than many people often realize. In a country of roughly three-hundred-million people, approximately two-million are living with the loss of a limb (1). And with each passing year in the US, there are approximately 185,000 amputations that are performed (2). With this volume of total and annual amputations occurring, physical therapists (who …
Five Massive Reasons Why Physical Therapy is Important After an Injury
Injuries are always a major bummer. The only things worse than getting an injury are not taking the appropriate steps towards getting yourself out of pain as quickly as possible and/or regaining as much functional ability as possible. Well, actually it’s also just as bad if you get injured but don’t learn how to reduce the likelihood from re-injury/pain/dysfunction from …
PT School: How to Know if You Should Work a Job While in School
To work or not to work while in Physical Therapy school? That is the question. The goal of this article is not to tell you “yes” or “no” but rather to give you some insight that will help you make the most appropriate, well-informed decision for yourself. Every student’s personal situation and needs will be different, so there’s no way anyone …
What to Expect for Your First Physical Therapy Appointment
When people aren’t quite certain of what to expect regarding any new, upcoming event that they are about to experience, they may find themselves either anxious, curious or even frightened as to what to expect for when the time arrives. When it comes to getting ready for your first physical therapy appointment, many people simply have very little or even …
PT School Observation Hours: How Many Are Needed for Applicants?
Applicants wishing to apply to a physical therapy program within the US are often required to complete a specific number of prerequisite observational hours within PT clinics as part of the application process. Every school has different requirements, with some schools requiring more hours than others, or some schools not even requiring any hours. It’s therefore very important for an …