Physical Therapist

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Physical Therapists help patients recover bodily functions, prevent disability, and ease pain after an injury or illness.  Therapy can include work and massage to increase strength, coordination, and range of motion.  Therapists also apply traction and  heat, cold, light, and water treatments.  They also train patients to use prosthetic and othotic appliances.

Physical therapist are employed in hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, schools, and physicians' offices.

Average Salary:  $25,000 - $45,000

Educational Requirements:

Students who want to become physical therapists should take the most challenging high school science, English, and math courses.

To become a licensed physical therapist, most states require students to earn a master's degree and pass a certification examination.

I would not like to become a physical therapist because after  a while of giving massages your hands do start to hurt. I know this because my cousin is actually a physical therapist and she is always complaining that she is sore.

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