I am happy with the way that my career and life is taking me. After owning and operating my practice for 5 years, I had a nice home, and a loving family. My practice employed 12 trustworthy employees but in the back of my mind I knew that I wanted to do more. Therefore, I knew it was time to branch out and begin to make a difference in more people’s life. Thats when, at 36 years old, I became a director of the American Physical Therapy Association(APTA), after being a part of it for 9 years now. The APTA represents more than 90,000 physical therapists and physical therapist assistants and helps improve the therapy field by encouraging improvements in practice, education, and research of physical therapy. The board of directors is made up of a president, vice presidents, secretary, treasurer, speaker of the house, vice speaker of the house, and nine directors; All of which are highly educated.
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It was important to me that I made an impact that could carry beyond my county, beyond my state, beyond the east coast. Millions of men, women, and children live through pain everyday, whether they are experiencing back of leg pain, and many of them do not get the proper care or rehabilitation which causes their quality of life to decrease dramatically. So, if could make physical therapy a little more accessible or a little cheaper, I would have attained my goal of helping other
It was important to me that I made an impact that could carry beyond my county, beyond my state, beyond the east coast. Millions of men, women, and children live through pain everyday, whether they are experiencing back of leg pain, and many of them do not get the proper care or rehabilitation which causes their quality of life to decrease dramatically. So, if could make physical therapy a little more accessible or a little cheaper, I would have attained my goal of helping other