Paxton Interviews a Physical Therapy Graduate Student

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We're actually gonna be interviewing a current graduate student in our physical therapy program, so we're gonna go ahead in and head into their buildings. I'm a second year physical therapy student and undergrad. I also attended Slippery Rock University. I studied public health and I was in the three plus three track. I took a slippery rock university because I heard of their amazing physical therapy department and a lot of success stories from those physical therapists. I thought that was a great idea to try to get a doctor degree in six years rather than seven so I could get out One year early, Undergrad The Graduate was definitely a big job. I knew that coming in those, so that helped me prepare and kind of ready myself for the jump I was about to take. I actually started studying somewhat in the summer to get a little jump start in anatomy, which helped a lot. Some things that helped me personally coming into graduate school from undergrad was definitely a group collaboration because physical therapy such a hands on profession, you're going to rely on your colleagues a lot in your peers in class, to practice different techniques, to bounce ideas off each other. Just to really keep you saying also, with our program, we have graduate assistance. They're usually second years that helped the first years out with the first year classes. Then once your second year, you'll have your peers helping out with your classes on. They would help us out with really anything we needed. They would have office hours so you could go into the live room and ask them questions. Ask if you're doing it right way usually have one day out of the week where we don't have a class. So that day is great to catch up on, studying to try to get ahead, to hang out with friends, just kind of take some time to yourself. Slippery rock has a cadaver lab, which we use for anatomy. That was really nice to see a body, and that's where I did most of my learning for an animal, really helped put everything together and for no muscular we have a patient come in who has cerebral palsy, and I think that's very unique for our program. I haven't really heard of many other programs that have that opportunity were able to practice hands on skills that you would use for a patient with a neuro muscular pathology. It's it's super helpful to actually see that in real life and then practice hands on skills. My favorite class is kind of a tied between neuroscience and muscular, skeletal for musculoskeletal. In that class, you will learn to start with lower extremities. You'll go through a bunch of different pathologies. People could present with how toe fix these pathologies and the progression of the pathology is. You will learn different mobilizations, bunch of hands on techniques and skills that if you go into a physical therapy clinic, you'll see the physical therapist performing on patients. Do finally learned these skills and get an application of physical therapy and for neuroscience. It's kind of the background of you're nervous systems of brain, spine, nerves and e. I think it's kind of interesting to put it all together and see.