Thank you:)

Well,I want to thank everyone for taking their time and checking out my blog! I really appreciate it! I really hope I get a good grade on this project, so I can bring my grade up! I also hope my future will be perfect because I have so much motivation and dedication that I would be able to make it through in opening my own office on my own and just live life how it is, with or without someone by your side. I am very excited about my career and future because I will do anything and everything in order to get where I want to be. Here is my contact information if you want a personal massage therapist:) I charge $10 an hour, if you come to my house, if I have to make a trip I charge $15 an hour. isaamoedo@yahoo.com. Again, thank you for your time. Any comments? Questions? Concerns?

When is physical therapy needed for children?

Doctors often recommend physical therapy for kids who have been injured or have movement problems from an illness, disease, or disability. Physical therapists are often able to relieve pain and help kids resume daily activities. After an injury, physical therapists teach kids exercises designed to help them regain strength and range of motion, and also show them how to prevent a recurring injury. Physical therapy may be needed any time a child has difficulty moving in such a way that it limits daily activities. Doctors may recommended PT for kids with:

• developmental delays
• cerebral palsy
• genetic disorders
• orthopedic disabilities
• heart and lung conditions
• birth defects
• effects of in-utero drug or alcohol exposure
• acute trauma
• head injury
• limb deficiencies
  
• muscle deficincies

Requirements

In order to become a successful physical therapist you have to major in a lot of science and health science courses, that's why next year I'm joining HOSA to see what it's like going to the hospitals and clinics and stuff, I'm so excited about that!:) In order to work as a physical therapist, one must first graduate from a physical therapist educational program with a master's or doctoral degree. The different courses that I mentioned earlier are mainly biology, chemistry, and physics, as well as specialized courses, which are you electives, are biomechanics, neuronatomy, human growth and development, manifestations of disease, examination techniques, and therapeutic procedures. In order to practice beforehand, like I'm going to do over the summer, graduates from physical therapist programs must pass national and state licensing exams. In order to retain their licenses, many states require PTs to take continuing education classes and attend workshops.

What is Physical Therapy?

Physical therapy focuses on individuals who have disturbed functions or impairment related to the musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiopulmonary, and integumentary systems. It also focuses on methods of evaluating the functions of these systems and on the selection and application of appropriate therapeutic interventions to alleviate pain. Physical therapists help patients, including accident victims and individuals with disabling conditions such as low-back pain, arthritis, heart disease, fractures, head injuries, and cerebral palsy, by providing services that restore function, improve mobility, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities. They most importantly, restore, maintain, and promote overall fitness and health. Say hello to the future Dr. Isabel Amoedo:).

Physical Therapy!

Well as you all know, I'm majoring in physical therapy, so I would love to talk to you about the different goals and aspects in life to get to that point! First, I have to graduate high school...duh!! and get accepted to a university, preferably FIU:) home of the golden panthers!!woohoo!:)haha. Well hopefully I will! Then attend college for another four years to earn my PhD in physical therapy:) Then, since my dad will be retired from his job by then, he aked if he could help me in opening p my own office, and he could be working there being the owner!:) Isn't that neat? I'm excited bout that. Well enough of my life, I hope this information would also want you to follow my dreams and footsteps in becoming a physical therapist:). Thank you!!

Work environment

Massage therapists work in settings of both private and public: private offices, studios, hospitals, nursing homes, fitness centers, sports medicine facilities, airports, and shopping malls. Massage therapists work by appointment. Before beginning a massage therapy session, therapists conduct an informal interview with the client to find out about the person's medical history and desired results from the massage. Massage therapists can succumb to injury if the proper technique is not used. The risk can be limited by use of good technique, proper spacing between sessions, exercise, and in many cases by the therapists themselves receiving a massage on a regular basis. Massage therapists typically give massages less than 40 hours per week. Most therapists who work 15 to 30 hours per week consider themselves to be full-time workers, because when time for travel, equipment set-up, and business functions, such as billing, are added, a massage therapist's hours per week may very well be more than 40 hours.

When it all started...

The practice of massage therapy started with the Ancient Chinese, Greek, Roman, Indian, and the Egyptian era. The Yellow Emperor's classic book of Internal Medicine, recommends "breathing exercises, massage of skin and flesh, and exercises of hands and feet" in the Chinese era. Massage was one of the principal method of revealing pain for Greek and Roman physicians. In Egypt, the Egyptian tomb paintings showed people practicing massage. Ayurveda, the traditional Indian system of medicine, where they had great emphasis on massage and it remains widely practiced in India. Massage was therefore used by early physicians to treat fatigue, illness, and injury based on their basic understanding of how the body functions. The disintegration of the Greek and Roman civilization lead to a scarce practice of massage until the late 19th century that brought about the demand for massage as a therapy.

Different approaches of massage therapy

Massage therapists can specialize in over 80 different types of massage called modalities. Here are some examples: Swedish massage, deep tissue massage, reflexology, acupressure, sports massage, and neuromuscular massage. Most massage therapists specialize in several modalities, which require different techniques. They use exaggerated strokes ranging in the length of a body part, or other strokes with a cupped or closed hand. A massage can be as long as 2 hours or 5-10 minutes short;it depends on the client's physical condition. For example, they would use approaches for clients with injuries that would not be appropriate for clients seeking relaxation, such as, prenatal massage and infant massage. Well there you have it, those are the different approaches that massage therapists take to get the job done!:)

What can massage therapy to do you?

Are you always angry, frustrated, depressed, or even stressed out from a long day at work?

How can you get all those problems and emotions out of your mind and body? Massage therapy is the answer:). Massage therapy is a combination of science and art and provides a relaxing experience by artistic hand strokes on the body to relax and take away stress...I'm guessing you need to have a lot of artistic talent for the job to be done right! People are now increasingly looking for holistic and natural healthcare methods for their health problems. Massage therapy has emerged as one of the most popular forms of health activity. All you need to do is just find someone to put you in a place where you have never gone before when your over-stressed. Massage therapists are there in heartbeat! with the sounds of the ocean breeze, and the smell of coconut body cream:)

Welcome:)

Welcome, to my personal learning experience! My english teacher assigned us a project, where we have two weeks to work on it and will also be apart of our final grade! which is big. Well Im going to be talking about physical and massage therapy because thats what I would love to do in the future. It has always been my dream, and actually earn my degree and become a doctor in physical therapy. I'm sure that it will happen, as long as I work extra hard! To start off with my future, during the summer I will start working, making money on my own, going to people's houses, them coming to my house, making appointments, hopefully having enough clients to serve, getting paid $10 an hour, things like that to keep me busy and making money by doing what I love! I also want to take classes during the summer so I can earn a license, so I can even get paid even more! Let's see how that goes! I'm so excited! I hope I get a really good grade on this project!