Lauren Ellis Triemstra
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I left my desk job to change careers and went back to school to become a Physical Therapist Assistant in 2009. I started working as a Rehabilitation Technician (rehab tech/PT Tech) while I was in school. I found it very helpful to work in a clinical setting that supported what I was learning in school and see principles and techniques applied on actual patients.
I have spent my career as a PTA in an outpatient orthopedic setting and have seen a variety of injuries and demographics of patients from ages 8-94 and so many different walks of life in between.
I enjoy learning and this field gives me so many opportunities to do so! I look forward to Continuing Education classes.
I get a lot of job satisfaction out of helping people. It's exactly what I wanted out of this career.
It's the type of job that I would do even if I didn't have to work.