“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.”
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