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PTA thinking about getting a bachelors..NEED HELP!

  •  09-07-2009, 9:58 AM

    PTA thinking about getting a bachelors..NEED HELP!

    alright so i have been thinking about getting a bachelors lately.

    i have been working at an ortho/sports clinic for about 2 months. there are 5 PTs, 1 PTA (me), and 5 ATCs.

    i'm thinking about getting one in exercise science and here are my reasons:

    1. i feel like the ATCs know more about exercises than i do, and would like more edu on exercise.

    2. if i ever decide to go for PT i need a bachelors and exercise science would probably be a good undergrad

    3. i may in the future decide to work/teach in a pta program, so i would need a bachelors for that..and i could then teach therex and whatever

    4. i'm not looking for a salary increase, but it would  be nice to say that i do have a bachelors in exercise and i am a pta. i think it would make me  a little more respectable. more so to the patients. i mean i'm 20 and when i say i have an associates i get this wierd vibe from them

    anyway so my question is:

    Do you think i should get a bachelors?

    and if i do do you think exercise science would be a good route?

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