A Career In Physical Therapy

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To be a physical therapy you need to have a licensure and or certification.
Some my duties as a physical therapist are to help out patients and provide care for them, under supervision. When a patient comes injure or just any patient I am required to help them trhough exercise or through any therapeutic method that is possible. Physical therapy helps out with my field by better understanding when a patient is stressed out or has had or is going through a life changing event. Helps to better understand or try to figure out what the patient is going through or how to manage it.

The information gained from this interview helps out with major in that we both try to help out people that are going through a life changing event and we tried

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