Katherine F Shepard

“At the end of this day and all the other days of your life, I hope you too will learn to swim steadily on, smile, and wave at your good fortune to be in this profession.”

Anthony Delitto

“Our profession needs to develop strategies designed to stop digging trenches between our practice and research communities.”

“I believe that if we are to make the claim to be evidence-based practitioners, then adhering to best practice standards should not be a nice thing to do but rather a necessary thing to do.”

Stanley V Paris

“As a profession, we are the specialists in movement and its restoration and enhancement. We are nothing if we are not the movement scientists of today and, most especially, of tomorrow.”

“When a public figure such as Bill Clinton receives therapy for a knee fracture, or when movement returns to the limbs of a “Superman,” or when a gassed mine worker takes his first steps following the accident, physical therapy needs to be making that information public and not waiting for a television station to interview a physician who makes only passing reference to “therapy.”

Rebecca L Craik

“You have to love what you are doing, be curious, believe that everyone has something to teach you, be willing to change your course when new information is presented, and have a burning passion to make things better.”

“I believe that we must articulate clearly the principles that underlie our practice.”

“Embrace new knowledge and technology to improve your expertise, and we will all be among those who survive in the next transformation of health care and academic settings.”

Jama Pursar

“I am learning more every day that it is how far we reach that determines how much we hold. When we hold on too tightly or when we are afraid or too undertrained to reach out, we severely restrict the range of the things that we can accomplish.”

Pamela W Duncan

“Physical therapists often fail to deliver the most effective programs. We do not use available evidence to design and implement the most effective interventions or services.”

“It is also imperative that we encourage our students and young therapists to develop social networks.”

Simply ask yourself, “Have I reached as far as I can? Have I served as many individuals as I could? Have I given as much as I have received? And have I done it with purpose, passion, and perseverance?”

Marilyn Moffat

“Although we have in our armamentarium of skills many tools that enable us to provide services for our patients and clients, there are none more important than exercise.”

“Therapeutic exercise provided by physical therapists is the intervention that will enable our increasingly elderly populations to keep themselves fit and avoid the heartaches of prolonged institutional care.”

“How many of us can do an aerobic capacity/endurance test for individuals without impairments using treadmill, ergometer, steps, and walk/run protocols, and how many can do a test with a 12-lead electrocardiograph?”

“I would venture to say that our education programs have often lost sight of what is necessary to truly make us exercise experts.”

“The development of practitioners who have minimal levels of skill in physical therapist examinations and interventions is not the aim of professional education; the aim is to develop experts.”

            “We physical therapists are so very capable of imagining new solutions, creating new hope for our patients and clients, and, more than braving them, conquering our new worlds.”