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Personal Narrative: A Career As A Physical Therapist

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As I completed the test that would help me in what career I should do I realized that Physical Therapist was perfect for me. Something interesting that I learned that a PT does is that they help individuals that have conditions that limit their abilities to move and perform functional activities in their daily lives. Something that caught my attention that the PTs do is that they help people, and I personally love helping people with any kind of problems. But something that disappointed me was the fact that people don’t get to move a certain part of their body is disappointing; like I want to be that spark in them that makes them believe they will move again. Everything seemed interested to me in the other hand though. The good thing is that

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