A profession still using an apprenticeship model? Cat Stone began her training in Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy (OMPT) a couple of years ago through the same organization that trained me. However, due to the events of 2020, all of her classes were canceled. I offered to train her, so that her learning would not be interrupted. And, discovered the joy of teaching one-on-one.

She is now finishing the 2nd of 5 modules and has already set herself far apart from the general PT by learning a framework for clinical reasoning and gaining assessment tools in differential diagnosis. She is now systematically studying and learning detailed anatomy, biomechanics, assessment and treatment for each joint in the body, and then will learn how to integrate the specific into functional and inter-regional patterns. She has studied hard.

Getting to share my passion and perspective and training in OMPT with Cat has been one of the highlights of my entire year. She is just as excited as I have always been, and still am, to learn and continue growing.

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I’d love to help create a community of physical therapists that are highly reasoning in their approach and are inspired and empowered to learn. Our world needs all of us to think, feel, connect, and care.

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From Cat:

“One of the best parts of being a physical therapist is the constant challenge in assessing the way bodies move through specific body types, activities, changes, and traumas; the learning never stops.

As a profession, continuing education is crucial for licensure and growth, providing anatomy review, new perspectives, new techniques, and more information geared toward specific patient populations.

The apprenticeship I started with Rebecca has taken my learning and skill set to the next level.

Instead of the normal 1 instructor: 20 students, 16 hours of PowerPoints in a classroom setting, and stop and go skills practice, I have 1:1 attention, reiteration, reaffirmation, and practice at my own pace. We study through the body one piece at a time,  both of us certain and confident before I move on to the next module—it is the kind of true learning we all deserve.

I’ve heard it so many times, “you won’t feel comfortable as a physical therapist until you’ve been practicing for at least 5 years…” Honestly, I’m not patient enough to wait 5 years, but also, I don’t have to. I have a mentor in Rebecca. Experience, time, and attention are the greatest teachers.”