Physical therapy is physical medicine and rehabilitation that promotes function and quality of life through exams, diagnosis and physical intervention. The practitioners are called physical therapist, being a form of medicine from around 460 BC physical therapy has been a prevalent form of medicine from massages, manual therapy and even hydrotherapy were used for centuries but when an association was founded in 1924 named the American Physical Therapy Association or APTA modern day physical therapy took huge strides in the modern world, with polio running vapid around the world and no cure in sight physical therapy was prescribe to provide some type of remedy to those who had the disease. Once the cure was found it was obvious that physical therapy was here to stay and in the coming years physical therapist were not only seen in just hospitals but in outpatient clinics, public schools, colleges and rehab centers and now physical therapy plays an major role in a professional sports team.

How this field relates to my current degree plan?

My degree plan currently doesn't focus on physical therapy, my current degree plan is setup to obtain an associates in general studies but my plan to change it is to find a college where I'm currently stationed at and see if they offer and CAPTE programs. CAPTE is, in the Physical Therapy community the program you want to go into to obtain your degree in physical therapy CAPTE stands for Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education, if i can find one which thus far all attempts have come up short in the area that i am in, I would enroll in the program which is about three years of schooling but because physical therapy is part of the medical field that is very competitive i would pursue school longer to obtain an doctorate in physical therapy.