How to Use physical therapy in a Sentence

physical therapy

noun

• The man groaning in physical therapy and the man struggling to breathe were in their 40s.
  — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• In eight months of physical therapy, Eliana went from a wheelchair to a walker to a cane, her mom says.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
• The current plan, James said, is to do physical therapy for three or four months.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2022
• Smell training is less like a cure than like physical therapy for the nose.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2021
• Evans, who will be a senior at Pascagoula High School in the fall, wants to study physical therapy or sports medicine in college.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 11 July 2022
• Enriquez caught the bus to take Isaac to physical therapy.
  — Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica, 29 Oct. 2024
• In the end, both visits reached the same conclusion: amp up the physical therapy.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2021
• One man in a gray kurta lies on a mat on the ground as a doctor conducts physical therapy.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 13 Mar. 2021
• Four to six weeks of crutches followed by three to six months of physical therapy.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2021
• But sitting there and doing all that [physical therapy] is — that’s got to be just boring at the very least, let alone hard.
  — Sam Farmerstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• The star said that after his surgery, he was put into a back brace and started physical therapy.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
• Most people do well with three to six weeks of physical therapy.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2021
• Judd spent months in intense physical therapy in order to be able to walk again.
  — Ashley Hume, Fox News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Sells is still going to physical therapy to build back his strength and stamina.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
• Yet one day at a physical therapy session, she was told the bills for her visits were not being paid.
  — Jenny Deam, ProPublica, 8 May 2021
• He isn't scheduled to have surgery, and the Sixers will treat his injury with physical therapy.
  — Dan Gelston, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
• The mother also said her son will also need physical therapy to use one of his arms again.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• Surgery meant being in the Intensive Care Unit and months of physical therapy.
  — Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• The latter might score you points on your running outfit, but the former will save you weeks of physical therapy.
  — Sammi Tapper, Vogue, 9 July 2024
• After David Jones, 71, had a stroke, he was sent to a Virginia nursing home for a few weeks of physical therapy to regain use of his leg.
  — USA Today, 1 Dec. 2022
• When Meg Daly broke both of her arms in 2013, the Miami resident was forced to take the Metrorail to physical therapy.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2022
• No surgery is planned and the injury will be addressed with physical therapy and treatment, according to the team.
  — Tom Moore, USA TODAY, 3 June 2021
• Atkins said Watkins proved to be a good fit for the physical therapy board, rising to become vice president.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• Ann Faucette said that after the surgery, her husband was able to play cards and do physical therapy on an exercise bike.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2024
• Robinson, a doctor of physical therapy, is a part of the nearly 50% of Black women in the United States who suffer from hair loss at some point in their lives.
  — Chanté Griffin, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
• Being able to walk was something the 17-year-old had been working toward in physical therapy in the months following the crash.
  — Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
• The rehab process consists of countless hours in physical therapy, setting goals, crushing goals and many, many tears along the way.
  — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Mar. 2021
• Most patients would stay for a week, faces cycling in and out, nobody going through Gomez’s same months-long process of physical therapy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• But claims about its benefits abound on social media, in gyms and in physical therapy clinics.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2025
• The most immediate needs are full time nursing, physical therapy and funding for day to day vital living expenses.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 13 Mar 2025