Fall Sports

September and October are probably the best time for sports fans. Although my Jets lost today, my high school football team that I coach did much of the same, my Yankees are about to decrease their magic number and win their 9th straight AL East title by beating the team who's name I don't even want to type... There's also college football, the US Open was earlier this month, Nascar is in full swing (although I never really watch it)... sports is good...

But how does all this sports talk relate to PT? These athletes are getting injured all the time, that's where we come in to get them back to performing their best. Granted there tend to be ATC's and personal trainers and a slew of other health related peoples, but PT is the real rehab specialists.

My injury as an athlete back in my high school days was what got me into the field. I realized that there was no NFL in my future and the human body and its ability to heal were very interesting to me so bada bing bada boom. In high school however my major was social science which led to me majoring in psychology in college and minoring in sociology... however I took all the "electives" necessary to get into PT school (chemistry, physics, biology - anatomy & physiology, etc.). I stayed involved in the medical field despite my major, got certified as an EMT, volunteered at a bunch of PT clinics, with a chiropractor, with an orthopaedic surgeon, worked with the athletic training staff at my college, and here I am in PT school.

Having gone through a year of classes and being at the end of my first clinic, I can gladly say I am ecstatic with the field I have chosen and hope I can add to it.

So that's my story, what's yours?... don't have one yet, what will your's be? Make it a good one.