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Pre-Physical Therapy
Physical Therapists assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and decrease or prevent deformity of patients suffering from disease or injury. They administer manual exercises, massage and/or traction to help relieve pain, increase the patient's strength, and decrease or prevent deformity and crippling. They also confer with the patient, medical practitioners and appropriate others to plan, implement and assess intervention programs. Physical therapy is one of the most competitive professions in the Allied Health field. A GPA of 3.5 or higher is recommended to apply for school entry. Currently, students complete a bachelors degree at The University of Tennessee at Martin, and then transfer to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis , TN or other schools to complete a doctorate in Physical Therapy. The program is approximately 3 years in length.
The US Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook projects that: Employment of Physical Therapists is expected to grow faster than the average of all occupations through 2012. The demand will continue to rise as growth in the number of individuals with limited function spurs demand for services, particularly among the elderly.
Program of Study
*Recommended courses to complete requirement are child, adolescent or abnormal psychology, personality development, psychology of adjustment, sociology, anthropology, economics, counseling, human relations, political science, humanities, art history, philosophy or logic, English literature, history, foreign language, finearts, religion.
**Statistics - course should cover nonparametric and parametric statistics, including analysis of covariiance and multivariate analysis of variance. Use of statistical results and computer interaction in data analysis strongly recommended. Biomedical statistics, education statistics, business statistics, psychology statistics as well as statistics courses in the math department are acceptable.
***Must include General Psychology I and II or General Psychology I and Human Growth and Development
FOR MORE INFORMATION Pre-Professional Health Science Program
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Belmont University
• http://www.aapmr.org/
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