5 reasons why you shouldn't become a physical therapist | PHYSICAL THERAPY IS NOT FOR YOU

Everyone should have to watch this before applying to PT school. I’m introverted and didn’t understand just how people-facing the profession is until I started doing clinicals. It’s negatively affected my mental health and I don’t see it changing until I figure out an exit strategy. For now I work in acute care. I can go hide in a stairwell for 10 minutes whenever I need to! It’s sustainable-ish for me for now.

I'm a 2nd year physical therapy university student And every point you have said is very accurate thanks for clarifying the points However I am in deep love with physical therapy.

As a DPT for decade, great points. Unfortunately I don’t see this changing in the field. Less autonomy given to us than we actually deserve. Different states don’t allow different things and it’s a shame. Main thing also is there is minimal to no progression in our field in salary. Until we get access to images, prescribing limited pain medication like the PT in the military does, I don’t see it happening. With those, ppl who get certified and get extra education should be allowed with increase pay.

I would love if you did a video on the financial portion of PT school!

I’ve been a PT/Physio for 16 years. Thank you for your video 👏🏻

Love your video. I still consider to become PT. Have a nice day ❤

This was awesome awesome Info! Thank you

I'm a physio. These pointers are so true for someone considering studying physio

Also, mill clinics where you see a lot of patients and do not have time to do notes. You have to do your notes at home and are not compensated (paid) for doing them outside of work hours.

I'm a first year PT student and I came to youtube to find a good reason to sacrifice the next 6 years of my youth to this program and I've only found good reasons NOT TO

When you said if you want to work in the medical field but you don't like blood or needles, I was like exactly!! But as a PT or PTA how do you avoid getting sick from patients that might be sick, or what if a patient has an infection? Do PT/PTA always wear gloves when treating patients? What precautions do they take?

So useful ❤❤thank u

Great video!

When it comes to getting loans are there any specific sites you would recommend to do some research on and then have you noticed if people do public or private loans or if people do a mix of both? No worries if you do not feel comfortable sharing.

I wanted to do mbbs but the cut off was huge..so I'm considering phisiotherapy as a carrer. Should i go for it or not. I'm planning to do my masters from home country and then shift to usa . Do you think it's a good idea or not?

Great job on this! I’m a DPT and own a practice, and I would tell any young person NOT to enter this field. I do ok, but it is a constant battle to be paid. I only stay afloat because most of my patients pay cash because I am specialized in vestibular rehab. If you are not specialized( which takes extra time in school and lots of money) expect to be paid less than your nurse friends….or find a wealthy spouse😅

Do you need to be physically strong to be a physiotherapist? I'm very interested in this field but I'm not the strongest or sportiest person out there. I understand that one needs to be fit and healthy enough to lift or carry a patient but I can't even do push-ups... This is quite concerning to me.

I am studying physical therapy and I am going once per week to university. I am nearly in my third year. In my country PT is a bachelor can do a specialisation in masters.

DPT's should be respected way more. I've bn to therapy twice, i must say the pt helped me out a lot more than the Dr. Did. He just prescribed me useless ibuprofen. The PT & PTA's actually helped me recover. With that said, i dont think this career field is worth it, unless you go PTA. its 2 years total, less than 10k, and decent pay in my area and the home health jobs are awesome (seems that way anyway). Im shooting for the PTA program this year.

I think becoming a PTA is my only way of trying to get in opposition to DPT. I don't understand how PTA is 2 years and then the other option is DPT where you can do it in 2 years but then if you become a PTA in 2 years you can bridge to DPT for another 2 and a half years. So that's 4 and a half years to become a DPT after PTA school. I don't have a good GPA at all and will never get picked for the DPT program. That's why I'm shooting for PTA. I know that I would love to be a PT because I used to be a personal trainer and trained people. I loved it but got into the medical field and now I have a BS in biology with a bad GPA and still working in the ER.