Physical therapy is 'the best-kept secret in health care' If you think physical therapy is only about rehabilitation after surgery or recovering from an accident, think again.
Roger Herr, the current president of the APTA, and Gammon Earhart, associate dean for physical therapy at the medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, echoed Dunn's prevention message in separate interviews with the AP.
“We're the best-kept secret in health care,” Sharon Dunn, the past president of the American Physical Therapy Association, told The Associated Press.
They think when they have a major medical problem that a physical therapist is going to massage them until they feel better.
For the vast majority, seeing a physical therapist should be about prevention, routine assessment and staying well.
