Physical Therapy: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

By Joe Klein

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Bringing you all things physical therapy. From being successful in school, navigating the PT profession, growing professionally, business development and everything in between.



Episode Date
GBU Episode #100!
May 18, 2026
GBU S2-E 47: The $100K Cap Era: How New Federal Student Loan Rules Will Reshape Physical Therapy
May 11, 2026
GBU S2-E46: Why Hiring Physical Therapists Has Become a Cluster F (and Nobody’s Explaining It Right
May 04, 2026
GBU S2-E45: 7 Things Physical Therapists Get Wrong—and How to Fix Them
Apr 27, 2026
GBU S2-E44: Revisiting Student Debt, and actionable steps to pay if off!
Apr 20, 2026
GBU S2-E43 New Grad PT Survival Guide: Avoid Burnout, Build Confidence, Love Your Career
Apr 13, 2026
GBU S2-E42 You’re Not a Bad Clinician — You Just Need More Reps
Apr 06, 2026
GBU S2-E41: How to Actually Succeed on Clinical Rotations
Mar 30, 2026
GBU S2-E40: Is PT School in Crisis: Fewer Students, Falling Pass Rates
Mar 23, 2026
GBU S2-E39: The PT School vs. Real Practice Gap
Mar 16, 2026
GBU S2: E38- OutPatient Physical Therapy
Mar 09, 2026
GBU S2-E37: Skilled Nursing Physical Therapist
Mar 02, 2026
GBU S2-E36: HHPT
Feb 23, 2026
GBU S2-E35: Inpatient Physical Therapy
Feb 16, 2026
GBU S2-E34: From New Grad to Respected Clinician: The Skills They Don’t Teach
Feb 09, 2026
GBU S2-E 33 Left Out in the Cold? Why Physical Therapists Feel Disconnected—and How We Move Forward
Feb 02, 2026
GBU S2-E32 Vision 2030 what has changed in the past decade since 2020.
Jan 26, 2026
GBU S2-E31: What are the three types of patient's we see.... and which one are we failing???
Jan 19, 2026
GBU S2-E30: Things Physical Therapist are afraid to say out loud
Jan 12, 2026
GBU S2-E 29 Year in Review and what is to come for 2026
Jan 05, 2026
GBU S2-E28 Imaging Addiction: When More Scans Mean More Problems
Dec 29, 2025
GBU S2-E27: Direct Access in Physical Therapy: A Great Idea Patients Still Don’t Use
Dec 22, 2025
GBU S2-E26: What is it that a PT really fears....
Dec 15, 2025
GBU S2-E25 Why are Patients losing trust in their Medical Doctor?
Dec 08, 2025
GBU S2-E24: Why Every PT needs to be in the gym training
Dec 01, 2025
GBU S2-E23: Are Physical Therapists Really Professionals? The Hidden Impact of Degree Classification on Student Loans
Nov 24, 2025
GBU S2-E22: Crushing $185K: How a Physical Therapist Can Become Debt-Free in Under 5 Years
Nov 17, 2025
GBU S2-E21: What's Missing in Physical Therapy
Nov 10, 2025
GBU S2: E20 Capitalizing on Youth Sports as a Physical Therapist
Nov 03, 2025
GBU S2-E19: Beyond the Patient: The Mentorship Every New Grad PT Actually Needs
Oct 27, 2025
GBU S2-E18: Pain management clinics are legalized drug dealers....
Oct 20, 2025
GBU S2-E17: Why opening up a PT practice is easier NOW, than even to before...
Oct 13, 2025
GBU S2:E16 Shifting from Hands-On to Movement-Based Care
Oct 06, 2025
GBU S2-E15: Welcome on the show Zac Farson SPT
Sep 29, 2025
GBU S2:14 Welcome Gavin Coles SPT
Sep 22, 2025
GBU: S2-E13: Who is living up to their end of the bargain?
Sep 15, 2025
GBU S2-E12: Why you need to be surrounding yourself in strength and conditioning
Sep 08, 2025
GBU S2-E11: Burned out in 3 years?
Sep 01, 2025
GBU S2: E10 - Is Physical Therapy becoming a Luxury service?
Aug 25, 2025
GBU S2:E9 - Why Cash based PT may actually be hurting our industry....
Aug 18, 2025
GBU S2:E8 - Is Evidence Based Therapy, hurting the profession?
Aug 11, 2025
GBU S2:E7 You passed your NPTE....Now what???
Aug 04, 2025
GBU S2:E6 How to be a De-influencer... You Don’t Need to Go Viral to Be Valuable!
Jul 28, 2025
GBU S2: E5 Physical Therapy MythBusting
Jul 21, 2025
GBU S2:E4 Bridging the Gap of PT vs Chiro with special guess Dr Daniel McClelland
Jul 14, 2025
GBU S2:E3 Why does the PT brand suck, and how we fit it!
Jul 07, 2025
GBU S2:E2 Is pain science the new snake oil?
Jun 30, 2025
GBU S2:E1 How many patients are Too Many???
Jun 23, 2025
Episode #52: What a year of podcasting and 5 years of business looks like
Jun 16, 2025
Episode #51: Where should you open your PT practice...
Jun 09, 2025
Episode #50: When is it time to leave your job?!?!
Jun 02, 2025
Episode #49: Three things you MUST do, your first five years out of PT School
May 27, 2025
Episode #48: Influencers are ruining the online fitness space
May 19, 2025
Episode #47: Are Residencies dead?
May 12, 2025
Episode #46: Sports Edition
May 05, 2025
Episode #45: Marking and Networking strategies to help grow your career.
Apr 28, 2025
Episode #44: Was the DPT degree a mistake???
Apr 21, 2025
Episode # 43: More PT Myths
Apr 14, 2025
Episode #42: Utah Physical Therapist..... as PCPs???
Apr 07, 2025
Episode #41: Three things you need to change from SPT into your first years in practice.
Mar 31, 2025
Episode #40: AI and what is means for YOU and the future of outpatient PT...
Mar 24, 2025
Episode #39: 22 million in Medicare Fraud???
Mar 17, 2025
Episode #38: 3 Things you MUST be doing outside of the clinic.
Mar 10, 2025
Episode #37: Things you should UNLEARN from PT School
Mar 03, 2025
Episode #36: Grab bag
Feb 24, 2025
Episode # 35: Passing and Studying for the NPTE Exam
Feb 17, 2025
Episode #34: Advice for soon to be PT student..
Feb 10, 2025
Episode # 33: The 3 Things I would NOT DO as a PT
Feb 03, 2025
Episode #32: Myths in PT
Jan 24, 2025
Episode #31: State of Rehab (WebPT)
Jan 20, 2025
Episode #30: How to become a Good PT
Jan 13, 2025
Episode #29: This is 2025
Jan 06, 2025
Episode #28: Thankful....
Dec 30, 2024
Episode #27: What to expect in your Salary and Package to look like as a PT
Dec 23, 2024
Episode # 26: Is Telehealth Dead..... Yes!
Dec 16, 2024
Episode #25: BONUS, United Health Care CEO... 3 Actual Solutions
Dec 11, 2024
Episode # 24: What to expect when you are treating.... surgical patients
Dec 09, 2024
Episode #23: Round 2 of Overrated vs underrated
Dec 02, 2024
Episode #22: Five years in business, here are five lessons learned!
Nov 25, 2024
Episode #21: The case of the mysterious hip pain
Nov 18, 2024
Episode #20: The Good and Optimistic side of PT
Nov 11, 2024
Episode #19: Is "Salesman," a bad word in PT?
Nov 04, 2024
Episode #18: Con-Ed
Oct 28, 2024
Episode #17: Travel PT
Oct 21, 2024
Episode #16: What is the Direction of the PT profession?
Oct 14, 2024
Episode #15: HHPT vs SNF vs OPPT
Oct 07, 2024
Episode #14: Five mistake I made as a new Clinic Owner
Sep 30, 2024
Episode #13: Overrated and Underrated in Physical Therapy
Sep 23, 2024
Episode #12: Things PT school didn't teach you
Sep 16, 2024
Episode #11: Is Opening up a Physical Therapy practice hard?
Sep 09, 2024
Episode #10: First Job Interview
Sep 02, 2024
Episode #9: Standard DPT vs Hybrid Program
Aug 26, 2024
Episode #8: Optimal Experience
Aug 19, 2024
Episode #7: Imposter Syndrome
Aug 12, 2024
Episode #6: Choosing a clinical rotation
Aug 05, 2024
Episode #5: Student Debt
Jul 31, 2024
Episode #2: Burnout, and how to avoid it
Jul 29, 2024
Episode #3: To Residency or not....
Jul 29, 2024
Episode #4: Cash vs Insurance based
Jul 29, 2024
Episode #1: Intro
Jul 27, 2024