During the Fall 2015 semester, I accepted an internship with REAL Physical Therapy Clinic. REAL Physical Therapy is a clinic that is co-owned by two UTSA Graduates. They allowed me to assist them with their marketing department during the fall semester. At the beginning of the semester, they let me know what I would be responsible for while interning for the company and what projects I would be helping them with. Through out the semester I accomplished many tasks and learned a great deal while I worked for REAL Physical Therapy. I gained a mass amount of knowledge about business and marketing from this internship, but I do believe that there are some adjustments St. Mary’s can make to the marketing program to help students be more prepared …show more content…
Mailchimp gives the company an easy way to input and segment all of their patients. This allows the company to target certain customers to send emails to depending on what information or campaign was being sent out. Mailchimp also gives analytical data about the recipients and how they interact with the email. Once an email has been sent the marketing department was able to analyze what was working and what wasn’t. It shows when customers open, interact, or click links from the email. Also, I learned to make different target segments depending on the patients demographic. The target segments made it easy to send a campaign to the right audience. Also, I utilized Mailchimp to create monthly newsletters for the company. I sent out these newsletters through Mailchimp, and received a ton of positive responses from the patients, because the newsletter contained valuable information, and also told patients about promotions going on in the …show more content…
Also, I was given the ability to be creative and develop advertisements and promote their business. Although, I felt prepared for the majority of the internship I felt I wasn’t prepared for the designing portion, because I was never taught the Photoshop in-depth. I personally feel like St. Mary’s should have some type of Photoshop requirement for one of the courses in the Marketing program, because almost every marketing job or internship requires to have some knowledge of Photoshop. Admittedly, the campus does offer some resources for Photoshop in the library, but I think this should be on the syllabus for one of the marketing courses. I’ve spoken to many marketing students and they all feel they lacked the preparedness for using Photoshop in their internship or job. I think having this part of a promotion class or even a course on it is own would be very beneficial to marketing students. In the end, I had to teach Photoshop to myself but I didn’t feel this was the ideal way. I had to start using Photoshop immediately when I started this internship and that transition wasn’t the most pleasant because I felt unprepared. I believe St. Mary’s University can do a better job by implementing Photoshop as a requirement in one or more of its marketing courses. This will be valuable to marketing students considering the majority of marketing jobs want their employees to have some
Imagine going up for the perfect lay-up, you make the shot but when you land you twist awkwardly and land on your knee. Laying on the ground, you feel the pain surging through your knee, the first line of defense is an athletic trainer, however if this accident happened when you fell on a wet kitchen floor you could expect much the same care from a physical therapist Athletic Trainers are the first to respond to sport related in game injuries, and provide care after injuries. In contrast physical therapist are not only there to fix accidental injuries, and treat chronic bone and joint they help with plans of care and rehabilitation for athletes and non-athletes after injuries. Physical Therapy play a important role in todays healthcare. Physical Therapy are experts of improving and storing motion , they contribute to their patients ‘ quality of life by keeping them healthy , fit , active and in medications . The first school of Modern Physical Therapy opened in Boston, MA , So Physical Therapy have been around for a long time. The Physical Therapy Association Organized by Mary McMillan. It later became the American Physical Therapy Association.World War ll brings changes to Physical Therapy was done at hospitals as patients recovered from injuries , surgeries or other ailments.
Now that you have a better understanding about Athletic training, I will explain about physical therapy and why I would like have as a lifetime career. In an article I read, the author Sue Klappa said that, “PT’s reach into our communities through engagement and social responsibility. It compels us to bring hope and love to others. It urges us to learn to see things differently. It holds the promise of defining moments, as we take the time to see things in a new light” (Klappa 2). Klappa is a physical therapist that traveled the world to help others and when she went to different countries. She learned how important physical therapist are in the medical field and how she can get others attention. Starting a career path in physical therapy can
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is one of the largest professional organizations representing physical therapists, physical therapist assistants and physical therapy students. The APTA provides a wide variety of services for physical therapists such as job opportunities, the latest research articles and guidelines for professional conduct. A part of these guidelines include core values all physical therapists must embody and demonstrate. According to the APTA, the core values for professionalism in physical therapy are accountability, altruism, compassion/caring, excellence, integrity, professional duty and social responsibility (Professionalism in Physical Therapy: Core Values, 2012). Many of these core values appear naturally
“Excuse me my name is Susan I was coming in today to see Jerrick Turner for a physical therapy session do you know where I can find him? Yes right this way ma’am, so what brings you in today, a knee injury or something of the sort? Yes I’ve been having severe pain in both of knees and I was told by my primary care doctor to come to Jerrick he is a Professional in this area and can help me. Hello there Susan its very nice to meet you how can I help? Physical therapy is the treatment of injury, disease, deformity in the body and is a way to help a person instead of medicine or surgery; furthermore, it takes
Physical therapy has recently become one of the most sought out professions, which is why it is now even that much harder to become one. A physical therapist is one who will provide treatment for one to maintain or restore maximum movement; while it is a fascinating profession this research essay will not focus on the actual profession. Physical Therapy is obviously associated with injuries, but let’s discuss the schooling behind the profession, how long do you assist a seasoned Physical Therapist, and what is the salary for a physical therapist.
I used to hate medical offices. When I was 6 years old, my family was in a car accident that left my 8 year old sister in the hospital for months, and my back so messed up that I was forced to go to the chiropractor twice a week for a few years after it. There were vivid memories of the feeling of my bones cracking and moving around inside of me that floated through my thoughts every time we took that infamous 20 minute drive to the office. When the visits finally ended, I swore to my 8 year old self that I would never set foot in a place even remotely similar to it ever again.
I chose Exercise Science as my major because I want to pursue a career in Physical Therapy. I have been through physical therapy throughout my entire life and it has always interested me and caught my attention. Most recently, was in 2015 after I needed surgery on my knee to repair a torn meniscus. The surgeon had to completely repair my meniscus because it was not just torn it had twisted and folded over on itself. I had to go through longer physical therapy than normal because this was not just a simple tear in the tissue. I will be getting another surgery on my knee in the near future so I will need to go through more physical therapy after that. It is better to have someone that has had those experiences and has seen things from the patient’s point of view so that they know how their patient is feeling going through therapy. I know I would rather have a physical therapist that knows what receiving the treatment is like and has gone through physical therapy before, rather than someone who has never received therapy and does not necessarily know what being a patient going through physical therapy feels like. I originally thought about majoring in athletic training to stay within more of an athletics type of atmosphere but exercise science will give me
The occupation of physical therapy has been around for centuries. Throughout time it has evolved greatly as a medical practice and an area of study. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of 2012, there were 204,200 physical therapists employed throughout the United States of America.
My journey to pursue an education in physical therapy actually originates from my early childhood. I endured a very impoverished upbringing and my family’s socioeconomic status was below the poverty line. At a very young age, money became the central issue of my life. I found myself worrying about mortgages, health bills, and grocery money. As I grew older, I vowed to myself that I would not endure my family’s financial burdens into my adulthood. I knew the best way to accomplish this was by obtaining a college degree and having a professional career. However, I was unsure what career I wanted to pursue. I experimented with many different career ideas, but during my sophomore, I discovered my passion and skill for physical medicine. For my
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The company also benefits from e-mail in another way: employee contact and customer service. “We literally have no incoming calls—ever,” says Knapp. “Everything—99 percent of what we do—is handled via e-mail. People don’t want to call in. People don’t want to wait on hold. We have a one-hour e-mail policy, so our customers get an immediate response.
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Physical therapy is a fun and exciting healthcare profession that helps people. It is all about helping other people who have problems with their body, muscles, joints and other parts of their body. Patients includes accident victims and individuals with disabling conditions such as low back pain, arthritis, heart disease, fractures, head injuries, and cerebral palsy. Physical therapy will perform an evaluation of your problem or difficulty. They evaluate your problem by performing tests and measures to assess the problem. These tests includes muscle strength, joint motion, sensory and neurological, coordination, balance, observation, palpation, flexibility, postural screening, movement analysis, and special tests are designed for a particular problem. Next, they develop a treatment plan and goals and then manage the appropriate treatment to aid in recovery of a problem or dysfunction. Physical therapists are able to treat their patients by using many different treatments depending on the type of injury. Some of the treatments are electrical stimulation, hot and cold packs, infrared and ultrasound to reduce swelling or relieve pain. These treatments are used to help decrease pain and increase movement and function. Therapeutic exercises instructions will help restore strength, movement, balance, or skill as a guide towards full functional recovery. Physical therapy provides "hands on techniques" like massage or joint mobilizations skills to restore joint motion or increase soft tissue flexibility. They will focus on basic skills such as getting out of bed, walking safely with crutches or a walker, moving specific joints and muscles of the body. Physical therapists treatment includes patient education to teach them how to deal with a current problem and how to prevent the problem in the future. Such documentation is used to track the patient's progress, and identify areas requiring more or less attention. They encourage patients to use their own muscles. Their main goal is to improve how an individual functions at work and home.
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Physical therapists are health care professionals that provide therapeutic services to their patients who have temporary or chronic physical conditions that were caused from injury or disease. Physical therapist also provided therapeutic services to patients after they have gone through surgery to help them gain back mobility and manage their pain. They can also work in preventive care by promoting healthy life styles and instructing individual patients or groups on preventing injury by using exercises that stretch and strengthen muscles. To help their patients try to recover they use massage techniques, wellness plans, and different types of equipment. When a physical therapist sees a patient for the very first time they must do an examination, evaluation, diagnosis, and then put together a physical intervention to start the rehabilitation process. They also work as a team with other health care professionals to help with their patients needs. Physical therapist can really make a difference in their patient’s lives by not only providing therapeutic services but also encouraging and motivating them so they can get better. The main goals of physical therapist are to help their patients retain or gain back lost physical mobility, eliminate or reduce pain, increase productivity and help promote a healthy life style so patients can have a better quality of life and become more independent.