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Physical Therapy: Why Focusing on the Whole Person Matters

September 10, 2019

When you think of the field of physical therapy, you might imagine athletic trainers and medical rehabilitation experts—a focus on mind, body, and spirit from a physical therapy perspective might not come to mind right away. This is understandable, as the field has traditionally centered around the physical aspects of injury and recovery. But there’s a growing body of evidence that treating the whole person (the spiritual and emotional needs along with the physical) is crucial to healing.