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Which season of the year are the toughest at your job?

I’m a senior student at brennan high school and I’m looking into going into physical therapy and interested about how the body works and how the body heals itself. #physical-therapy

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Cathy’s Answer

Really it’s all the same all year. That being said, I think Major vacation Holidays are tough as far as your own personal Vacation time off. In the healthcare field there are always sick and hurting people. You are in constant competition with your coworkers for time off during the Holidays.
Then there is Geography. If you live in a state where it snows a lot and you work in Home Health or have to drive you may not be able to get to work. So I guess Winter could be bad.
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Beth’s Answer

People get sick and injured all year long. Depending on where you work you may see trends like there are more heart attacks and strokes around the holidays. There are more breathing problems in the spring and in the high pollen months, more fractures in the snow and ice. And things are slow in January when no one has met their insurance deductible yet and they put off that elective knee surgery. In the summer, all the kids and teachers have the surgeries they put off during the school year.
Generally, PT’s are busy all the time. No one picks a time to hurt their back or have vertigo or crash their car.
Physical therapy is a great career to help people get back to their best life after an injury. You will make a good salary and always be able to find a job.

Beth recommends the following next steps:

Keep your grades up PT is very competitive
Visit APTA. Org for career and university info.
Contact a local PT and shadow then for a few days to see what happens in the clinic
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Dr. Shreepal’s Answer

dependes on what type to job are you into, office or home care. do you live in northern states where there is a ton of snow and ice rain or south ?
also varies what time of the year it is. like people go on vacation and during holidays many people would like to spend time with their family. so some times staffing becomes a challenge and puts an extra work on the regular staff.
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