Physical therapy is now a booming business that has come a very long way in a very short period of time; in fact it’s one of the fastest growing industries in the world. New physical therapists are entering the field every single day to treat the ever growing pool of people requiring treatment for all different kinds of injuries and ailments.
Injuries are a fact of life, not just for professional athletes but for regular people too. An elderly person who slips in the shower and breaks a hip, or the dock worker that injures his back lifting heavy box after heavy box or the middle aged woman that gets banged up in a hit and run collision all require the services of a properly trained physical therapist.
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In this case study, my supervisee and I discussed how the fact that both of us were middle aged (albeit a 15-year age difference), middle class, white women brought up issues of trust and difficulties in establishing rapport between the supervisee and the poor and ethnically different clients at her placements. We also had the opportunity to notice differences in the expectations of the therapist in Asian and Hispanic cultures, and that the expectation of a more hierarchical role was at odds with the supervisee’s preferred postmodern stance.
The supervisee was visibly upset with the father of one of her clients who was not supportive of his daughter’s lesbianism. The supervisee disclosed that she had had bisexual experiences in the past, and that her anger was counter transference and that she needed to explore her own unfinished business in this area.
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Massage therapists enjoy a profession that has many options. Beginning with the massage therapy classes where training is received, the hours a professional massage therapists operates and the setting at which their work is performed leaves ample opportunity to expand and explore the schedule and location that works best for your personal lifestyle.
Over 1,000 massage therapy schools are available in the country and with a high school diploma being the only standard requirement at most of them, anyone can start a profession in the art of massage therapy. Climb into those massage therapy classes and get certified!
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