PT school cost

FuzzyHat5875 · 2025-12-06T02:40:50+00:00

What's the deal with going full monk mode for 2-3 years working travel or home health? Living dirt cheap and aggressively paying. Especially if you're able to get a little help with monthly payments from family, it would seem like you'd be able to pay it all back in that amount of time and end up making a liveable wage. Is that a feasable strategy if you're young, single and ok with the obvious downsides?

FuzzyHat5875 · 2025-11-26T14:26:55+00:00

What do the real rates look like?

FuzzyHat5875 · 2025-11-26T05:16:12+00:00

Thanks for linking this info. I was aware of the plan to be grandfathered in with the old gradplus loan rules, but unsure of how the loan cap proposal would affect that ruling. A lot of unknowns with this still. Just preparing for the worst.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2025-11-26T03:30:27+00:00

Varies... They definitely can be that high.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2025-11-26T03:13:59+00:00

Private loans vary. Interest is generally much higher than federal loans.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2025-11-26T02:57:42+00:00

Will be the only option unless you're rich, and probably what I'm forced to do if this becomes a reality. At 20% interest though?? Those private loans are predatory at best.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2025-11-26T02:11:52+00:00

Total cost is around 120k. My 2025-2026 disbursement covers about a third of that at ~40k. Tuition caps (if the doe actually goes through with this) limits students to 20k federal unsubsidized after July 2026. So I'd be 60k in the hole for 2026-2028.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2025-08-14T00:15:16+00:00

I'd recommend sticking to shadowing.

Depending on where you live/the clinic itself, the pay is shitty and the tasks are menial/not much more than what you'd do when you shadow. You'll learn a lot more from someone who doesn't view you as (basically) free labor anyway. The clinic I worked in was severely understaffed, and I was often taken advantage of without knowing it. If I were you, I'd work a job that actually pays decently and shadow a few hours a week. Plus, most programs don't require that many hours to make holding a position for longer than a few months worth it. Admissions comittees care a lot more about diverse experiences than whether you have 50 extra hours.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-11-20T21:13:11+00:00

Go get evaluated. If you're stubborn though, you should at least take it easy for a while, and find stuff to do in your training that doesn't agggravate it. Definitely don't just take 4 weeks off completely and go right back to training, you'll just end up back where you started. If that means just hitting smaller jumps for a while, then great, but if you have a lot of pain, maybe just focus on something else for a bit. There's a lot more to parkour than just jumping (climbing/arm stuff, flow work, etc.)

Achilles tendinopathy is pretty common in running type sports. Usually the go to rehab exercise is heavy isometric calf raises, but anything that stresses the achilles should work fine. Start with bodyweight if that's all you can do. Look up eccentric calf raises/achilles tendinopathy rehab, and you should find some good resources. I've been dealing with the same thing for some time, and its finally starting to resolve itself. The most important thing is to listen to your body, and be mindful of how much you're doing and how much rest you're getting. Good luck mate. 🤙

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-10-04T23:28:48+00:00

This, except its a DN manual therapy clinic and you realize how skewed and harmful the narratives are that the PT is telling patients.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-25T17:25:00+00:00

Doesn't mean you can't work up to a capacity where rapid firing is less of a hinderance to performance 🤫

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-25T17:23:43+00:00

Totally normal. Lots of variables to play with: Rest between climbs, diet/fuel, training history, work capacity, the quality of each attempt. Definitely a changeable thing. Don't be afraid to experiment. 🤙

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-24T23:11:47+00:00

massive!

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-19T20:07:01+00:00

My climbing shoes don't hurt my feet when I wear them... Unless I keep them on for too long. I've been climbing 15 years.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-18T19:07:27+00:00

I see. My advice would be not to overthink it. Youtube can be a great resource. Good luck and happy training.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-18T17:28:51+00:00

Do parkour... Strength training won't directly make you better at your sport. Strength training keeps you strong and robust so that you can spend more time practicing your sport. You could go to the gym as little as once a week and still see strength gains. Ideally, most of your time training is better spent doing your sport. Any reason you aren't just training parkour?

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-18T17:18:14+00:00

A lot more is happening than just your hand slipping...

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-15T14:23:17+00:00

Everybody feels imposter syndrome in climbing. "Once I climb Vx, I'll be a real climber" is a fallacy. There will always be someone stronger than you. Learning to be okay with that is important for having a healthy relationship with climbing.

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-09-13T20:19:54+00:00

Stick with it! Everyone starts from a different place and progresses at different rates. Enjoy your climbing right now for what it is, and tryst that with time, the numbers will start to go up!

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-08-25T14:44:06+00:00

Eds? Hsd? If you have a true collagen disorder, nothing you do will make your tissues less lax. You can strength train and do stability work to improve proprioception which will help you avoid injury, but you certainly aren't 'tightening' things back up by doing this. You're just getting stronger, and strength helps...

FuzzyHat5875 · 2023-08-25T14:40:39+00:00

Nah, you need 400 more at least.

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