My reaction to GPA requirements in the PT program
A “B-” average is just cruel.

There's no crying in pt school!
This is a blog about physical therapy school. It applies to SPTs, and anyone else who feels stretched a little too thin.
A “B-” average is just cruel.


Me, during an eval: tell me about what happened.
Patient: well it all started when I quit my job last winter….
Me: no about your knee
Patient: *ignores me and continues to tell me irrelevant information like the name of the street they tripped on which happens to be undergoing a name change which she thinks is ridiculous given it’s been called maple for 27 years and highway 63 really just won’t hold the same character as maple did*
So I am a female human being. I have short hair.
I am giving a presentation at a community center to a group of older adults (geriatrics amirite). I have a microphone. I am speaking. Suddenly, from the elderly gentleman sitting at the table immediately to my left comes:
“WHAT IS HE SAYING??”
I wish I could say this wasn’t the second time that DAY that I was misgendered by these people.
OK edit: To be fair, I am the type of gay that LOOKS gay, you know? And old people are confused as it is so 🤷🏼♀️
1: You’ll be wrong sometimes. You’ll be right sometimes. But usually when you’re right, you’re also wrong, so it’s all a wash - make sense? idk
2: Patients are going to say some RUDE shit. Just make sure they don’t say it in front of other patients.
3: Working for free is degrading. I don’t care what your university tells you about how the experience is “priceless”; getting to the end of a 45 hour work week unpaid is actually one of the worst experiences.
4. That being said, it’s true what they say: you learn best by doing something. over and over and over and over
5: You’re might actually miss the safety of the classroom.
6: But there really isn’t anything like walking someone through some painful, shit-ass surgery and hearing them thank YOU personally for your help. Honestly, the first time that happens changes things.
7: You’ll figure it out someday. There are just some things that you cannot learn from a textbook. Some things just come with time and experience.

It really just feels like I’m pushing your ass around but you’re gonna pay me for doing it.
So after a EXTREMELY short summer, we are back in session. My condolences to y’all. Try not to panic during your first practicals, drink some coffee, and make sure to stretch out those pec minors bc hunching over a book all day will ROUND those shoulders ✌🏻
As you are a physical therapist I thought you might be interested in the work of Crip Video Productions. Crip Video Productions is created by a filmmaker with Cerebral Palsy whose mission is to increase understanding of disability through storytelling with their independent short youtube films. They have created 3 films so far titled “Drama Sighted” “Only Those Who Limp Allowed” and “Crips Not Creeps”. Since the films depict people with disabilities living very full,vibrant active lifestyles with jobs many physical therapists have found their work to my very useful and informative,especially physical therapy students who want an idea of what living with a disability is actually like for patients. Now Crip Video Productions is casting a new film about a student with Cerebral Palsy who helps her professor who is a stroke survivor adapt to life with a neurologic disability including helping him with physical therapy related stuff! Check out the casting link for more details! They are still looking for various able bodied and disabled actors to be in the production pro bono.
anyone else just want like a wife and a dog