Adele Levine Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Regardless of a patient's true motives to get out of bed, I always applaud on the inside. That's what physical therapy is all about. To get them out of bed. To coax them down to the rehab gym.

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#5. 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?

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#6. They know what the Destroyer learned a long time ago - lying in bed doesn't rehabilitate anyone.

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

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

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

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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!

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#13. Physical therapy begins immediately and continues daily.

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

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

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

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