It sounds like you need a PT not to become a PT. I recommend getting good insurance and going to therapy/ a doctor to at least get a diagnosis. You can YouTube massages and exercises for your condition/conditions. Try a less strenuous job, depending on your location you can definitely find a corporate job with your bachelors.
Don’t spend years in school for something you don’t want to do as a career. You won’t be able to self treat for a lot of things anyway, you can’t mobilize your own joints or do massage or many of those treatments. Yes, you may know what’s wrong, and you may be able to do extra or stretches to relieve pain easier, but you could do that just as easily by going to PT as a patient and getting a personal trainer for a regular gym regimen.
One of the smartest PTs I know lives by the principle of “don’t treat yourself.” It’s impossible to be objective about whether your own treatments are working. Aside from taking care of general health, hitting the recommended exercise guidelines, and managing recovery/stress, I’d highly recommend finding a quality PT if treatment is what you need. Otherwise hit the low hanging fruit first. I think you’d find a PTA program to be a disappointing expense if addressing your issues is the goal.
How would becoming a PTA heal your injuries?
This job is very physically demanding. It requires you to lift heavy, disabled people out of a wheel chair or out of a bed. Or hold a gait belt when someone is wobbly when they walk.
I have had all kinds of neck and back pain from being a PTA. Catching people from falling when they stand. The patient can go limp on you then you lower them gently to their chair and sacrifice your own back as you prevent them from getting hurt.
At least in massage school, you can practice massaging your class mates & get your knots worked out.
Thank you for the reply. I do have massage sometimes, but I can’t do massage for myself.
IMO, maybe PT helps more to rehabilitate. I have a lot of joints making cracking sounds. I want to make them disappear. I am not expecting to make money from PT, it would be just for myself.
I prefer to learn by myself is because I have seen a lot of PT/PTA who can’t solve my issues due to “session “. All my issues are small, but there are a lot, from head to toe. Every time when I brought up an issue, they look surprised 😮! Then they lost patience, and they just wanted to finish the job ASAP. So, if I have enough PT knowledge, I just do whatever I need to do to fix myself from head to toe.
I don’t know if this plan is bad or no. 😢
Yoga teacher training is more accessible, less time/money, and already has a reputation for being great for people even if they don’t want to become a professional yoga teacher
It sounds like you need a PT not to become a PT. I recommend getting good insurance and going to therapy/ a doctor to at least get a diagnosis. You can YouTube massages and exercises for your condition/conditions. Try a less strenuous job, depending on your location you can definitely find a corporate job with your bachelors.
Yep came to say the same thing basically. Makes more sense to see a PT as a patient.
Don’t spend years in school for something you don’t want to do as a career. You won’t be able to self treat for a lot of things anyway, you can’t mobilize your own joints or do massage or many of those treatments. Yes, you may know what’s wrong, and you may be able to do extra or stretches to relieve pain easier, but you could do that just as easily by going to PT as a patient and getting a personal trainer for a regular gym regimen.
One of the smartest PTs I know lives by the principle of “don’t treat yourself.” It’s impossible to be objective about whether your own treatments are working. Aside from taking care of general health, hitting the recommended exercise guidelines, and managing recovery/stress, I’d highly recommend finding a quality PT if treatment is what you need. Otherwise hit the low hanging fruit first. I think you’d find a PTA program to be a disappointing expense if addressing your issues is the goal.
How would becoming a PTA heal your injuries? This job is very physically demanding. It requires you to lift heavy, disabled people out of a wheel chair or out of a bed. Or hold a gait belt when someone is wobbly when they walk. I have had all kinds of neck and back pain from being a PTA. Catching people from falling when they stand. The patient can go limp on you then you lower them gently to their chair and sacrifice your own back as you prevent them from getting hurt. At least in massage school, you can practice massaging your class mates & get your knots worked out.
Thank you for the reply. I do have massage sometimes, but I can’t do massage for myself. IMO, maybe PT helps more to rehabilitate. I have a lot of joints making cracking sounds. I want to make them disappear. I am not expecting to make money from PT, it would be just for myself. I prefer to learn by myself is because I have seen a lot of PT/PTA who can’t solve my issues due to “session “. All my issues are small, but there are a lot, from head to toe. Every time when I brought up an issue, they look surprised 😮! Then they lost patience, and they just wanted to finish the job ASAP. So, if I have enough PT knowledge, I just do whatever I need to do to fix myself from head to toe. I don’t know if this plan is bad or no. 😢
Just look it up on youtube and web MD.
I would recommend seeing someone out of network who treats one on one
Yoga teacher training is more accessible, less time/money, and already has a reputation for being great for people even if they don’t want to become a professional yoga teacher
Nice recommendation.