What’s the most important thing for a patient to understand about physical therapy after a spinal cord injury? - Isa McClure, MAPT

We’re a team. I’m not here to tell you what to do. I’m here to help guide you through what you need to do in order to get home, and to be as strong and as independent and functional as possible. And we can’t work in silos; we can’t work alone, we have to work together, and the team really does actually start with the patient. I want to know a patient’s goals, and I am going to help them achieve those goals as much as I possibly can within their diagnostic group, but we have to work together. I’m not there to be their enemy, and I’m not there to be the bad guy to tell them, “No, you must weight shift,” “you must do this” but we have to work together. Because I will always be there for my patients, to help support them with whatever we do. The facility that I work at, we tell all of our patients, “Just because you leave—the door never closes. We want to make sure that if you need something from your therapist, that you can always come back and talk to us.”