Another Wii Bites The Dust
Dang it, another Wii article... problem is worth repeating: This is going to become attached to us...
Random person: oh, you are a PT, you have people play Wii to rehabilitate them, that's wonderful...
Not so much... why is it moments like this don't make news... PT is so much more than Wii, I should know based on the ridiculous amount of content I have to study for the licensure exam.
The new APTA marketing campaign can't come soon enough...
posted by Unknown @ 7:39 PM
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I think part of the problem is that the general public does not fully understand what PTs have to know to get that "PT" after their name. PTs have to understand the basic functioning of the human body and how to facilitate physical improvement through any number of evidence based (and unfortunately, non-evidence based) interventions. All the public sees is a means to an end, not the thought process that goes into choosing the means. To say to a PT "oh yeah, you teach people to play with the Wii all day" is like saying to an MD "oh yeah, you teach people to take drugs and make them stay home from school" or to a teacher "oh yeah, you play with chalk and color in the lines" - Perhaps if the general public knew more about our specific body of knowledge they would be less likely to so easily put PTs in a box with the newest intervention label on the outside.
- laura
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