I used to be a romantic person and thought that I should spend my time on academic pursuit or intellectual work if I were to study at a university. Yet, then after the DSE was over, I came to realize that I needed to decide on my future career carefully and realistically.

Then, I started my research. I asked many people in different sectors and found that I would really like to work in the Health Care, because the work is meaningful, essential and stable. Advice from my aunt, who was a nurse, a few of my friends, who are doctors and a PT student, further strengthens my decision.

Looking at my personality, I like working with people, talking to them, offering help to them, instead of doing routine work behind the desk. I enjoy challenges and the sense of satisfaction of overcoming them. I am confident that I can solve problems effectively. I am physically strong and tough. As I have been playing handball and doing Chinese Dancing, I am particularly aware of protecting bones, muscles and ligaments and how to avoid injuries to them. In fact, my favourite TV series are Bones, House and Inside Treatment.

My mother is another major reason why I am interested in PT. Recently, she has been suffering from back pain but the cause of the problem cannot be identified. She has tried many conventional treatments as well as some traditional and peculiar methods to fix her problem. Those methods, sometimes work, most time, unfortunately not. She is now under the care of a PT and I hope the treatment as well as daily stretching practice, core exercise, changes of her postures would be able to fix her problem eventually.

Yet, although I have more confidence in science and professional training, the unconventional treatments that my mother has had are really eye-opening, if not astonishing You have got to see her back on fire and bruises all over her body after being brushed. But I am also curious and would like to explore more if these unconventional methods, which are so popular in the Chinese culture, can really help solve people’s problems, or can complement with the western medical treatments. So far, I am quite open to all these remedies. I hope I would be given the chance to study PT so that I could have the proper knowledge and training of these practices, not just to help my mother or my grandmother, but the parents or grandparents of others.

	Created by Suk Yin Chow over 8 years ago

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