Is it hard to become a physical therapist?
How amusing that none of the answers are given by actual physical therapists.It’s not impossible but it is not easy either. These days you need to obtain a Clinical Doctorate. A DPT. It’s way easier than a PhD. But it is significantly more expensive than a BS which I obtained 35 years ago. How fulfilling depends on your work environment. If you choose outpatient and follow the money (to pay off the exorbitant education costs) and join the corporate models (ATI, Athletico and others) you will probably be burned out in less than 5 years. Home health seems better by t it’s not. Since almost all of healthcare is for profit, you will not be treated as a professional. You will be pressured to see more patients, do exorbitant amounts of paperwork and come close to committing fraud regularly. Decision making will be taken out of your hands but you will be held accountable for it. It has changed dramatically in my time and so my best advice would be to take a job either with a small practice, a teaching hospital or a school system. Otherwise, you’ll join a profession that is lacking in elder practitioners because by they quit early secondary to burnout.
Low low back pain , only when sitting ? Never had before . help?
the very last disk u can feel, under that. not sore to the touch at all. Pinching nerve? Any test i can do at home or work outs or stretches. or go see a chiropractor? Never been to one and dont want to get hooked but this is very annoying to not be able to lay or sit. all i can do is stand or lay on my stomach