Physical Therapist Quotes:

Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?

- Steve Carell

source: "Fictional character: Andy". "The 40-Year-Old Virgin", 2005.

topic: Use It Or Lose It, Physical Therapist, Virgins

I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.

- Teri Garr

topic: Fighting, Use, Television, Physical Therapist, Physical Attraction

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

- Sasha Cohen

topic: Sports, Ice, Class, Physical Therapist, Skates

I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement.

- Tara Subkoff

source: "Tara Subkoff: 'I Survived a Brain Tumor'" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 17, 2010.

topic: Cancer, Grateful, Recovery, Teresa, Physical Therapist

...personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist.

- Simone Elkeles

source: Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Therapists, Torture, Physical Therapist

A knowledgeable physical therapist can slowly build up patients' confidence by reassuring them that there is no structural problem and reminding them of the physiologic reason for the pain.

- John E. Sarno

topic: Pain, Patient, Problem, Physical Therapist

The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and pains - and many other puzzling physical complaints - are actually caused by trigger points, or small contraction knots, in the muscles of the body.

- Clair Davies

source: Clair Davies, Amber Davies (2013). “The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief”, p.21, New Harbinger Publications

topic: Pain, Massage, Physicians, Massage Therapists, Physical Therapist

I work with a place in Santa Monica called Phase IV. My doctor recommended them to me when I started losing weight. They help people train for things like triathlons or biking and running races. They offer physical therapists, testing, lectures.

- Drew Carey

source: "Drew Carey: 'I feel like I'm aging in reverse". Interview with Mary Brophy Marcus, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 8, 2011.

topic: Running, Doctors, Race, Monica, Physical Therapist

I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

- Danica Patrick

topic: Husband, Yoga, Home, After Hours, Physical Therapist