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What is "physical therapist"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
physical therapist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each has an occupational therapist, a speech and language therapist and a physical therapist, and Melanie has two nurses.
▪ He walked again, and met and married Phyllis Holden, a physical therapist.
▪ In especially difficult or puzzling cases, a more specialized evaluation may be conducted by an occupational or physical therapist.
▪ Physical therapy and the physical therapist came to be the source and symbol of healing for patients.
▪ Under the supervision of physical therapist Clive Brewster, Johnson also said he lost about eight pounds during his workouts.
Wiktionary
physical therapist

n. A physiotherapist

WordNet
physical therapist

n. therapist who treats injury or dysfunction with exercises and other physical treatments of the disorder [syn: physiotherapist]

Usage examples of "physical therapist".

Her physical therapist had told her that light exercise would help.

Junior was a physical therapist, and a good one, working mostly with accident and stroke victims who were struggling to regain lost physical function.

I'd have to lift weights for the rest of my life or the scars would stiffen and I'd lose mobility in the arm, or so my physical therapist had said.

His physical therapist, Moshe Bloom, was in his late twenties, six feet four, with a body so pumped and well carved that he looked as if he was in training to go one-on-one with an army tank.

Unconsciously, he tapped the fingers of his right hand in a rhythm his physical therapist had taught him.