The last thing I wanted was to be another star player in their nightmare.

Her mission every minute of the day is to uncover the hilarity in random scenarios.

Having a limp is okay, probably cool, if you are a desk jockey working from home, but poor publicity if you are a physical therapist.

After a couple hours with a difficult and noncompliant patient, I sometimes felt a buzzing in my ear. Was my job sucking the life out of me? How did this person get on my schedule?

No class in physical therapy school prepared me to counsel a patient dealing with a life-changing injury.

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.

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

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

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

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.