Personal Narrative: A Career As A Physical Therapist

I had an amazing opportunity in the beginning of my junior year to job shadow a real life physical therapist. While I was shadowing a doctor named Heidi, a physical therapist, from Aurora Wellness Center in Burlington,Wisconsin. While I was there for the short two or three hours, I learned so many new and interesting things about the life of a physical therapist.One thing I learned was how to tell if someone tore a rotator cuff, how many muscles makes up the rotater cuff, and also how to use some of the machinery the Therapist use on their patients. One of the machines they used on a young man who injured his shoulder was a heat ultrasound. Heidi used the ultrasound to help loosen up the scar tissue that formed in his shoulder from his injury.Another machine I encountered …show more content…
The way she was able to help him correct himself was to place his hands on his hips and really concentrate on his walking. She worked with the older man by doing hip exercises and stretches such as hip flexors. I helped Heidi work with so many different people during the short time I spent with her and although it was a short period of time I truly did learn a lot.
To be a Pediatric Physical Therapist I personally think I would fit in very well. Working with children and adolescents would keep me up to date with the world as to what is in style and what is no longer in style. I love interacting with kids, they are just so fascinating and by me becoming a pediatric physical therapist at the children's hospital of Seattle, it would make my life more interesting knowing who I’m working with and also understanding I am in the most beautiful city in America. I personally wouldn't want to sit in an office all day long dealing with paperwork while I could be having fun and healing children and adolescents.The only thing that is making me have second thoughts about becoming a P.P.T. is all of the paperwork that comes with the job and the schooling it