14 Quotes by Adele Levine

I got hit in the fucking head with the medicine ball.

Given how tedious and dull the hospital could be, I always expected hospital inpatients to be happy to see us. But they frequently had the opposite reaction. Patients cringed as soon as the door swung open to reveal, ta da! Physical Therapy!

One patient got up and used his wound care supplies to tape his hospital door shut.

Whenever I saw a person I couldn't place, I quickly looked at their legs - as if that would help me identify them.

Local grandmas came in and out of our clinic bringing homemade cookies and fudge, because nothing soothes phantom limb pain better than a homemade brownie.

Even the physical therapist, who until that day has been seen as an unwelcome tormentor, is pulled into the picture.

Because if there's anything you need to be a physical therapist, it's a sense of humor.

They know what the Destroyer learned a long time ago—lying in bed doesn’t rehabilitate anyone.

Physical therapy has a high burnout rate. The long hours of intense one-on-one time is emotionally fatiguing. And while we universally love our patients, there’s always one rotten apple in the bunch who just breaks you down.