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Is it common to go from a Kinesiology major to Physical Therapy school? What Pre-Physical Therapy classes were the hardest?

I am thinking about going into Kinesiology and then onto becoming a Physical Therapist.

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Obligatory not a physical therapist. However, I am an educator that sees many students come through a kinesiology/exercise science program to go on to become doctors, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and athletic trainers.

Before I can really answer, which class is going to be the hardest, you have to take a look at the course curriculum. While most will have very similar core requirements, not every program will be the same. Most of these programs are going to have core curriculum requirements of physics, statistics, chemistry, anatomy, and physiology, etc.

With that said, I find that the majority of my students find anatomy and physiology most difficult. The reason being that this is probably the number one course that you 100% absolutely positively must know like the back of your hand. Concepts that are introduced in the graduate level physical therapy courses build on basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology. If you cannot master the basics, you cannot learn the finer details.
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