What started my interest in physical therapy was my mother. She has a degree in physical Therapy form Georgia State University. Growing up over seas I have always wanted to return to my home in Georgia for college. I've always know I would go to school close to my family in the United States. All my life I have been interested in sports and have really enjoyed them. I know there aren't many jobs that involve sports that interest me so I never pursued the idea of working with sports and looked for something more academic that I liked. I was also worried about how much money I could make. One day my mom was telling me about her job. I've always known she was a physical therapist, but I thought she only worked with old people who had fallen and needed to be taught how to walk again or hurt a muscle and needed to regain movement in their wrest or something. She told me that physical therapist also work with athletes. This surprised me and gave me something that I thought I could really enjoy. I've never been good enough at sports to seriously think about being an athlete, but I thought that working with them would be fun and interesting. Physical therapy is also a good respectable job that you can make money at.
In the future I plan on having a family one day. Physical therapy can also prepare me for that. While I was growing up it was a huge help to my family of four boys to have a physical therapist as a mother. She could tell right away if we had broken a bone or sprained a muscle. She also new serious something was. We didn't have to go to the hospital to. Get things checked out. We only went when one of us really needed to get something fixed. My mom having gotten a degree in physical therapy also had to study a lot of medicine in college and later to keep her license. This also helped a lot. The last thing that made a big difference was that she worked at a hospital. She had a lot of experience dealing with situations that we would have been in.
Good job.
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