Why study Physical Therapy?
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If you would like to work as part of a collaborative healthcare
team, in a practice that involves health promotion, prevention, and
rehabilitation, then a career in physical therapy might be for you.
Physical therapists evaluate and treat patients using a variety of
physical therapeutic measures (such as thermal agents and exercise) and
education versus medicine or surgery.
Physical therapy
involves examination, evaluation, treatment interventions, instruction,
consultative services, and supervision of support personnel. The
therapeutic properties of exercise, heat, cold, electricity, ultrasound,
massage, and other rehabilitative procedures are used during treatment.
Areas of board certified specialization within physical therapy include
cardiopulmonary, electrophysiology, geriatrics, neurology, orthopedics,
pediatrics, and sports physical therapy.