Also called: PT
Helps people recover movement and reduce pain after injuries, surgeries or illness through exercise and hands-on therapy.
She works through a schedule of patients: a runner with a knee injury, a grandfather learning to walk after a hip replacement, a teen recovering from a shoulder surgery. Each session mixes hands-on work, exercises and coaching.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Doctorate (PhD), about 7 years after high school. Bachelor's plus a 3-year Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) and state license.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $60k – $150k.
Majors to look at: Kinesiology, Exercise Science, Biology.
Growing much faster than average (about 11% over 10 years). BLS projection, 2024-34 (approx.).
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps track exercises and write notes; hands-on treatment and coaching patients through recovery stay human.
Classes: AP Biology, Anatomy & Physiology, Physics, Physical education.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1123.
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