Eighteen-months-worth of physical therapy to recoup from an early 1990s car crash proved to be helpful for Daniel Bishop's recovery from injuries while also mapping his future, according to The Press-Register Correspondent.
The Southwest Alabama man finished high school in 1996 then studied pre-medical biology as an undergraduate, where he also defied doctors' wishes and played soccer. He proceeded to earn a Master's Degree and a doctorate in physical therapy. But the physical therapy business he opened late last year was inspired by his bounce-back from vertebrae fractures and partial paralysis.
"I have always wanted to own my own business," he told the news source, noting Bishop Physical Therapy is geared toward "making people's pain go away" and employs a "natural approach at treating chronic pain and disability."
He has offered his professional services to helping people who are uninsured yet are in need of assistance from physical therapy at a local church. But the 18 months of physical therapy he needed after the 1993 collision imparted an interest in the field, which he never forgot.
Roughly three of five people who hold physical therapy jobs work in hospitals or the offices of other practitioners of health, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.