Pre-Physical Therapy Personal Statement

Through hours of rehearsals and performances, I repeatedly noticed the similarities between dance styles. As a result, when I dance, I am able to merge my two cultures. I no longer feel torn. Today, I am confident in my identity as a Sri Lankan-American dancer, who is often mistaken for an

To me, this comes in the form of attending APU’s Educational and Clinical Counseling program and pursuing a career that allows me to demonstrate my ability in helping others achieve their goals. The rigorous design of this program will be a challenge to my academic grit and a testament to the skills I developed during my three years as a UCR undergraduate. The teachings and standards of this program will serve as a means of evaluating my professional experience after dedicating the last four years to supporting low-income students of color in a school environment. Throughout my academic and professional journey, I have also grown as a person by developing my conscientious, agreeable, and inquisitive personality traits that allow me to create healthy relationships and remain optimistic for the future. My academic, professional, and personal characteristics have revealed a road leading to APU’s Educational and Clinical Counseling program and I wish to materialize my vision alongside this

Most individuals have a defining moment in their lives, where they know where their life is headed. Pursuing a degree, as a physician assistant for me did not happen in a single moment but a collection of moments. My mother’s battle with heart disease, a father collapsing on the ground unresponsive, watching first hand the initial incision of an ACL reconstruction to the head of an academic program suggesting a masters in physician assistant. An accumulation of these moments has driven me to unite my interests to accomplish and contribute more to healthcare. Throughout my physical therapy assistant program, I excelled but not due to pure intelligence.

I desire my future to be successful. I will learn more about myself and what I need by completing these surveys. Looking at the broad view in life makes the most sense because having an outline for the future is the path to triumph. Being capable of inspecting the details in life gives prospects you might never see coming otherwise. I grasp that much of what has sculpted my personality are the things I have experienced and the community I have been entangled with.

Malorie is the one person who has guided me throughout this journey, revealed the structure and reality of an Occupational Therapy program, and has fully supported me in pursuing this career. In 2018, she began her journey into becoming an Occupational Therapist, and her transparency regarding Occupational Therapy school has intensified the desire to pursue my schooling. I have become fully aware of the time, energy, and amount of work that goes into participating in a doctoral program. I intend on establishing connections, using my resources, pursuing this journey alongside other motivated individuals and continually reminding myself of why I chose this profession. I feel my tenacity for learning and dedication to success makes me a perfect candidate for the doctoral

Providing the catalyst, in my dream of becoming a physical therapist, the rehabilitative services I received for my injury, strengthened my resolve to provide the same quality services to others. After completing my rehabilitation I received an offer for employment as a physical therapy assistant. Working as a physical therapy assistant enabled me the opportunity through hands on training and observation to experience the world of a physical therapist and solidify my ambition to pursue a degree in the field of physical

Me: How has your education prepared you for physical therapist

As a Certified Medical Assistant, I have worked to nurture my career in an array of clinical settings. Adhering to not only the clinical but also the administrate side of practices such as Geriatrics, General Surgery, and Pediatrics. In addition to my medical clinical skills I have also garnered psychological education

In my personal analysis, while she shows the emotionally damaging aspect of competitive dancing, she struggles to capture the audience emotionally. An opposing individual of this audience may be able to emotionally connect with the audience to convey a different opinion. Others with different backgrounds such as being an experienced dance parent may be swayed against this article because of personal experience and emotional disconnection. The audience may expect a more emotional view, through true experiences rather than scientific

In my senior year of high school I observed physical therapy in outpatient rehab, geriatric outpatient rehab, and a hospital. From there I was enthralled in the rehab

I am a good candidate for the Reisher Scholarship because I am hard working and self motivated. The value of education is something that I have understood since a very young age. This scholarship would help me substantially because my mom is a single parent with two kids in college. With this scholarship money I will be able to become more successful and reach my goals in life. My completing my degree I will be one step closer to becoming a physical therapist and helping improve my clients quality of life.

By 2026 physical therapy jobs are said to be increased by 25% (“10 Interesting Physical Therapy Facts & Statistics,” 28 Dec. 2017). Physical therapists are doctors that help people who have pain during movement or have lost some range of motion. They help those patients regain their abilities or manage their pain (Bellamy). This is a great career to go into. There are many aspects that go into being a physical therapist like degrees, advancement opportunities, day to day responsibilities, and much more.

The ability to create and recreate is a cognitive function which helps in solving the question of learning. Mental images play a major role in determining how dance is composed and conceived by the choreographer, the dancer and ultimately the audience, for whom the art work is being created. What readily drives a choreographer in creating dance movements can easily be at least one of the following factors: the need to fulfill a function with the dance, to embellish an opera, a response to an outside stimuli, the need to work with a particular dancer or the need to move to the structure of movement suggested by a piece of music. Ultimately, there is a craving to be satisfied. Mason opines that “the processes of dance making have been likened to an irrepressible ‘evolutionary urge’ ”

As a professional, one must adhere to the guiding principles defined by the professional association. Scope of Practice outlines the “notions of professional conduct, accountability and self- governance and expanded practice”. Scope of Practice summarizes “the range of roles and activities an individual registrant or licensee is permitted to undertake in the course of professional practice. These roles and activities are largely determined by professional education and practice competence along with factors in the practice context, such as demands on practitioners’ services and available resources” (Fealy 2005). Scope of Practice is based upon the “profession 's unique body of knowledge, supported by educational preparation, a body of evidence, and existing or emerging practice frameworks” (American Physical Therapy Association, 2015).

Giving kids and young adults the space to become them selves with no rules, no judging from others, and no expectation of right and wrong is an extremely rich opportunity for them to discover or rediscover their identity. In dance classes, or at least the ones that focus mostly on developing the creative side of dance, students have the chance to express freely and be themselves for a short time. In the book Dance Education Around the World, Isto Turpeinen (Svendler & Burridge, 2015) describes his experience with chaos in his dance classes as moment for dialog, “In my classes, I use a working style where I see the dance studio as a forum. Children have a space for action. It is a kind of chaotic state in which the construction of dance starts” writes Turpeinen in his anecdote as a dance teacher with youngsters, “working with a raw-board method opens a space for personal action and experience and creates a space for shared and personal processes of dance and the dancing self.