PT career + injury/illness

[jrc]

What specialties are the most/least physically demanding? How doable is it to move between specialties? Are there any areas that do not involve any/much manual therapy (i.e. massage, manual joint mobilization, etc.)?

Coming from the professional dance world where injury/illness often ends one's performing career, I'm wondering what the options are for a PT who becomes chronically ill or injured.

Thanks in advance.

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[smiley1]

I'd also be interested in answers to this question...Anyone out there?

 

[kcgregor]

Same here.

 

[Sarah007]

me three.
I'm an undergrad now thinking about pt. However, every place I shadow has employees who are changing fields because of the strain on their own bodies. Do I have a skewed sample or is this really how it goes?