How to Use physical therapy in a Sentence

physical therapy

noun
  • The first few weeks of his physical therapy are done at our home.
    — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Smell training is less like a cure than like physical therapy for the nose.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2021
  • At first, all that was on the board was going to physical therapy.
    — Victoria Kirby, Allure, 5 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Four to six weeks of crutches followed by three to six months of physical therapy.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • The first few weeks of his physical therapy are done at our home, and the first session was today.
    — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Like, ‘got to go to physical therapy’ kind of issues.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 May 2026
  • The babies will be born when Link is still in physical therapy and things like that.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Lucy is in physical therapy, and may be for the rest of her life, Maggie said.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Sells is still going to physical therapy to build back his strength and stamina.
    — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021
  • His physical therapy and fitness routine takes up about four hours a day.
    — Breanna Draxler, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The current plan, James said, is to do physical therapy for three or four months.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The star said that after his surgery, he was put into a back brace and started physical therapy.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • But so is physical therapy, often the cost of wearing the wrong pair of running shoes.
    — Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 2 June 2025
  • Her main concern at the next level will be her studies in pre-physical therapy.
    — Tony Baranek, chicagotribune.com, 5 Apr. 2021
  • He's tried pilates and hours of physical therapy, but nothing has worked.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 17 Feb. 2026
  • This is how physical therapy ends.
    — Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Tomorrow he will be fitted with a brace and work with physical therapy.
    — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Once he is cleared, Asare will fly back to Germany to start physical therapy.
    — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • That doesn’t mean the waiting game between the physical therapy sessions has been easy.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2025
  • As the weeks passed, Martinez began physical therapy and went back to work.
    — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The man groaning in physical therapy and the man struggling to breathe were in their 40s.
    — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • And physical therapy or acupuncture may work for some patients but not others.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The ibuprofen didn’t help much; neither did the physical therapy.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • 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

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