Massage Therapy is a natural process that you can use to help your dog maintain a better quality of health. Massage works on your dog’s body on many different levels. Dogs are emotional; they have the same feelings and thoughts as we do. They experience pain‚ loneliness and anxiety. Early emotional conditioning is directly connected to the amount and quality of touch they receive. “The benefit of massaging your dog is to increase the circulation that dog’s bodies receive during any basic full
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I first had physical therapy at 27‚ after I slipped on an icy Montreal sidewalk and tore the ligaments in my left ankle. I had it again at 42 and 43‚ after surgery on my right and left knees‚ and most recently I’ve had it on both shoulders. My orthopedist likes to say surgery is half the battle. If so‚ it’s the easy half. The slow and repetitive work of physical therapy often starts the next day‚ and for an injury like a tear in an anterior cruciate ligament‚ it can take up to six months. Before
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Physical Therapist My sophomore year while playing in a football game‚ I tackled a player from the other team right before half-time. While I was making the tackle‚ I felt a pop in my knee. It wasn’t very painful because of the adrenaline in my system at the time but the next day the pain came. It felt like there was a rubber band getting caught on my knee and coming off almost every step I took. I just put this pain aside through part of basketball season until the pain was too much and I went
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Arthritis and Massage Therapy I chose this topic to write about because many people in my life are affected by the disease‚ and my career path chosen is a massage therapist. I wanted to know how arthritis could help with pain symptoms of arthritis. Arthritis is an insidious disease; it’s eating away at the joints of nearly seventy million people or nearly 1 out of 3 adults in the U.S. It is considered one of our most prevalent chronic health problems‚ and is costing the economy more than $120
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Emily‚ a physical therapist‚ said this because of being a physical therapist‚ you deal with bunch of people that have been injured and have to help them get back to where they were‚ if not ahead of where they were which can be very challenging. Challenges that will lie between me and success on my future career are staying in school longer than most people‚ adapting many different skills‚ and I will overcome these by keeping ahead of everything that I need to get done to become a Physical Therapist
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person walk again‚ move a finger‚ be themselves again… these are dreams physical therapists make reality. After comparing The University of Texas Health Center of San Antonio‚ Texas State University‚ and The University of Texas Medical Branch‚ based on my criteria of tuition costs‚ distance from home‚ and strength of programs provided‚ Texas State University would be the best choice in receiving a bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy. Statistics say‚ Texas State graduates “...are employed within six
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Physical Therapist vs. Mental Health and Marriage Family Counselor In the next month‚ I will be graduating and starting the decision-making process of what I want to do in college. I have thought about what jobs I have always wanted to do and two jobs have come to mind‚ a physical therapist and mental health counselor. Although they both have rewarding outcomes‚ physical therapist gets paid a lot more and I think that’s why I would choose to become a physical therapist over a mental health counselor
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Physical therapist assistants and physical therapist play an important role in today’s healthcare system. Through the use of physical therapy‚ which was first put into practice in 460 B.C.‚ physical therapist assistants (pta) and physical therapist (pt) help patients with physical illnesses‚ injuries‚ or physical strains to recover and manage their pain. Although they seem similar‚ physical therapist assistants and physical therapist differ from each other in many aspects but most importantly in
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Physical Therapists Primary Duties and Responsibilities The primary duty of a physical therapist is to restore‚ maintain and promote optimal physical function. Additional duties and responsibilities of a physical therapist include diagnosing and managing movement dysfunction and enhance physical and functional abilities. Along with restoring‚ maintain and promoting optimal physical function‚ physical therapists also promote optimal wellness and fitness and optimal quality of life as it relates to
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possess these qualities‚ but you have to want to do them if you plan to be a physical therapist and do it to the best of your ability. Like APTA’s definition of professionalism for a physical therapist‚ there are core values that they consistently strive for and make an effort to embody. Some of these values are respect‚ communication‚ ethics‚ caring‚ and the ability to work with others. Therefore‚ as a doctor of physical therapy student‚ it is my goal to continually work towards those core values since
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