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February 2017

Feb 27, 2017 1,601 notes
Being introduced to G codes for the first time

Originally posted by heleneetlesgarcons

Feb 24, 2017 5 notes
What you and your classmates look like immediately before Practical times

There’s safety in numbers.

Originally posted by becausebirds

Feb 22, 2017 5 notes
#pt school
Juuuuust as you think you're starting to evolve into a proper physical therapist

There’s that one exam that JUST

Originally posted by noface-me

Feb 21, 2017 2 notes
#pt school #physiotherapy #physical therapy
When a goni is so de-calibrated that you're measurements aren't really relevant anymore

Originally posted by alliefallie

Feb 21, 2017
When your friends turn down your PT advice and you take it super personally

Originally posted by iwillalwayshelp

Feb 21, 2017 3 notes
When your significant other complains that you don't hang in the middle of an exam week

Originally posted by dasiphora

Feb 14, 2017 4 notes
Seeing an Ortho question on an exercise principles exam that's over resistance training

Originally posted by yourreactiongifs

Feb 11, 2017 1 note
Feb 10, 2017 1,307,983 notes
*in a practical* pt complains of pain 7/10 before resistance

……and your partner jumps RIGHT to a Grade III mob bc of the jitters. Lord. Help.

Originally posted by maumas-gifs

Feb 9, 2017 6 notes
Trying to read your profs shorthand in the note to understand where the hell they left off with this patient

…..

Originally posted by giphygiff

Feb 9, 2017 1 note
#pt school #physical therapy #physiotherapy #dpt
When your name gets called for your practical time

Originally posted by lawyerreaderfandomer

Feb 9, 2017 2 notes

January 2017

When a classmate makes a BOMB study guide of UE ROM values

And it’s COLOR CODED.

Originally posted by yourreactiongifs

Jan 23, 2017 6 notes
#physiotherapy #physical therapy #pt school
Looking back at freshman year of college

Originally posted by keepit-kardashian

Jan 18, 2017 3 notes
#grad school #physiotherapy #physical therapy
Profs asking the class "r u with me" and you're all just like

Originally posted by usedpimpa

Jan 18, 2017 9 notes
#physical therapy #pt school #dpt #physiotherapy
Attitude toward quizzes within the first three days of class

Originally posted by wonderlandforgirls

Jan 17, 2017 2 notes
#grad school
Demonstrating a manipulation correctly for the class

Originally posted by vhs-ninja

Jan 16, 2017 3 notes

sorayachemaly:

zukoscar:

ryncoon:

mousepunker:

the-philosophers-bone:

itrhymeswithalayne:

people have no idea what its like to be 14 and have everyone telling you that you’re faking and pretending to be ill for attention or to skip art class and the doctor’s telling you you’re ‘just being a teenager’ when you actually had a serious kidney disease

if someone hadn’t eventually listened to me i would have died

Please, please support self-diagnosed teenagers, don’t pretend they’re not really disabled, don’t belittle or mock them, don’t exclude them from disabled spaces and for the love of god don’t pretend you know more about them than they do

i am disabled to this day because when i was a teenage girl, my doctors didn’t take me seriously. when i said i was in extreme pain, they said i just wasn’t trying hard enough at physical therapy to repair a broken ankle. turns out they’d fucked up the surgery to fix it, and their neglect of my months of complaints meant it was damaged beyond repair. i still have mobility issues 8 years later, will have pain and require surgeries throughout my life and will, always, be disabled. because of them. because of the silencing of girls’ voices, in all spheres. because doctors do not value the voices of teenaged girls.

When I was twelve, the knee specialist I had finally convinced my mom to take me to (after years of begging) told me that my knees hurt because of my hips widening.

“No,” I said. “You don’t understand. I can’t walk when it happens, it hurts so bad. It’s been since I was a little kid.”

“It might twinge a bit, sure,” he told me. “Go to physical therapy for a few weeks.” I burst into tears.

My mom then refused to take me to physical therapy, because it was a long drive and the doctor said it wasn’t serious, so why should she bother? That was the start of her not listening to any complaint about my joints I ever had.

As it turns out, my knees were dislocating every couple of days. She and my doctors ignored and taught me to ignore sprains, fractures, cartilage tears, and dislocations until I moved out and learned that it wasn’t normal. I missed out on years of my life because of my doctor not only discounting the experience of a young girl, but fully blaming my pain on the fact of my being a young girl.

Listen to children when they tell you something is wrong with their bodies.

I had stomach pains for years as a kid. Almost daily. I was blamed as a faker. 

I have Celiac.

People know what the hell is going on with their own bodies. If they don’t think something is right fucking listen to them.

In their study, “The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain,” researchers Diane E. Hoffmann and Anita J. Tarzian documented the degree to which girl’s and women’s pain is routinely dismissed as the “not real,” “emotional,” response of “fragile” females. Not only are girls and women who experience pain less likely to be taken seriously when they describe it, but they are less likely to be treated by medical professionals.

This is so important.

I complained of back pain for three YEARS before my parents and physicians took it seriously instead of blaming it on “growing pains”. Turns out I had a grade 4 spondylolosthesis (75% slip) and would now need a fusion surgery immediately to repair what could have been fixed with a back brace and a few weeks of PT. One fusion turned into three after a few years. Now I live with pain that ruins most activities that I love to do.

We FUTURE PTs can step up in pediatric health! Listen to girls! Listen to young women! These are preventable situations! We can be better.

Jan 16, 2017 245,906 notes
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"Your hours will reflect those of your CI"

CI - works Saturdays. Me -

Originally posted by emdv

Jan 14, 2017 7 notes
#physiotherapy #physical therapy #clinicals #pt school
Getting ready for my first day at a new clinical

Originally posted by becausebirds

Jan 14, 2017 4 notes

December 2016

Being festive with your classmates when you've finished finals

Originally posted by baawri

Dec 12, 2016 4 notes
#pt school #physical therapy #physiotherapy #dpt #grad school

November 2016

During the e-stim practical

Originally posted by slowly-dying-inside421

Nov 29, 2016 4 notes
#pt school #physical therapy #physiotherapy #finals
Giving fellow classmates pep talks going into finals week

Originally posted by gifheaven

Nov 29, 2016 2 notes
#pt school #grad school #finals
I have never related to a gif quite so intimately before

Like am I the girl who loses control? The bird who heroically triumphs? The soda explosion? Who knows.

Originally posted by mtgbrian

Nov 19, 2016 6 notes
Switching to online exams

Originally posted by virtualstars

Nov 19, 2016 3 notes
Thoughts on writing SOAP notes over thanksgiving break

Originally posted by heckyeahreactiongifs

Nov 19, 2016 2 notes
#thanksgiving #pt school #grad school
Seeing a test grade you SWORE you did well on..

Neuro just doesn’t come easy to some people okay

Originally posted by gif-007

Nov 19, 2016 3 notes
#grad school #spt #physiotherapy #physical therapy #pt school
Because of PT school

Originally posted by kardashianngifs

Nov 14, 2016 25 notes
#pt school #physiotherapy #physical therapy #dpt #grad school
"Head forward position is related to upper trap tightness"

Cue Nerd fight.

Originally posted by someonemovethiswalkingcarpet

Nov 8, 2016 6 notes
#pt school #physical therapy #physiotherapy #grad school #dpt
When you answer a question so wrong in class and the prof demands to know who offered that

Originally posted by dbareactions

Nov 8, 2016 13 notes

October 2016

Me on nights when I don't have an exam immediately in the future

Originally posted by hyperputa

Oct 31, 2016 12 notes
"Hello? Obturator? Yes can I have the number for a good muscle pun?"

Originally posted by gurl

Oct 31, 2016 10 notes
Oct 29, 2016 16 notes
A couple life lessons from pt school

1. Know your weaknesses, but know your strengths better.
2. Don’t forget the bed locks.
3. Each human body - in its uniqueness - is perfect and dignified the way it is.
4. “Normal” doesn’t exist except in textbooks.
5. Crying is okay. Crying in public is okay. Sleeping in public is also okay.
6. Postures can be misleading; don’t believe everything you see.
7. Don’t forget beer.
8. The hardest thing you’ve ever done is always right in front of you; don’t dwell in the past or peek into the future.
9. Plantor flexors matter.
10. This will all be worth it someday.

This has been night time thoughts following a super unproductive study session at the end of the week.

Oct 21, 2016 15 notes
#pt school #physical therapy #physiotherapy #grad school
Trying to manage all my responsibilities

Originally posted by becausebirds

Oct 19, 2016 24 notes
Next week: two exams, a practical, with a couple quizzes sprinkled in

So you just watch Netflix instead. And pray that DPT comes quickly.

Originally posted by princesconsuela

Oct 19, 2016 4 notes
#pt school #physical therapy #physiotherapy #grad school #student #study
When, upon interview, your patient contraindicates for the treatment you had planned during a practical

Bring on the prompting and point reductions.

Originally posted by leatherjacketrenegade67

Oct 18, 2016 3 notes
When it's my turn to be the patient during PROM

Originally posted by tiggausrs

Oct 18, 2016 7 notes
Waiting for my student loan disbursement

Originally posted by stop-this-pain

Oct 18, 2016 5 notes
#pt school #physical therapy #physiotherapy #grad school #college
"Do you want to double check your parameters?"

During the traction practical

Originally posted by magrittephil

Oct 17, 2016 1 note

September 2016

Every single lab temperature

Yeah, sure I’ll take my shirt off so you can measure flexor strength whatever

Originally posted by spongebob

Sep 16, 2016 4 notes
Peering through the syllabus and realizing it never stops

5 years in and I’m not even sure what I want to do but I know what I don’t want to do

Originally posted by geekylaugifs

Sep 15, 2016
Rolling back to class with your PT nerd friends like

#riptupac

Originally posted by thorazinee

Sep 15, 2016

May 2016

Trying to recover from the scars pt school finals leave on my soul

Originally posted by xnsietyscxrs

May 9, 2016 11 notes
Well friends, we made it.

Finals have been conquered, my mental status has been restored to “stable”, and the nightmares of practical exams have kind of subsided. Now if you don’t mind, Im going to go outside and play. And I recommend you do the same.

As such, we will reconvene when classes (unfortunately) resume in September.

AKA HAPPY SUMMER YALL 🙌🏻 for those of you headed out to clinicals, tune back in every once in a while. There may yet be a nugget of physical therapy puns still on this page over the summer 😉

May 8, 2016 1 note
The second we all finish our last final

until next year, pt school…

Originally posted by cuteness--overload

May 6, 2016
When your roommates go out, but it's finals week

Originally posted by secretly-a-dinosaur

May 3, 2016 3 notes
#finals
Finals week: 1. me:

Originally posted by trxylermyqueen

May 3, 2016 8 notes
Coming up with possible movement analysis motions with your classmates

Originally posted by find-a-reaction-gif

May 3, 2016 16 notes
#physical therapy #pt school #physiotherapy #dpt
Regarding comments from non-PT majors

Does anyone else want to force people who try to comfort you by saying “aw, school can’t be that bad!” to sit through one (ONE) exam?

Let me know how you bullshit your way through a pathological gait analysis. It’s not *that* bad!

Anywho, carry on, nerds. Summer is coming.

May 2, 2016 2 notes
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