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Health Blog Category: Physical Therapist Assistants

Christy O’Brien

Christy O’BrienMay 8th  2026 

Name: Christy O’Brien

Empower History: March 2026

Hometown: Coloma, CA

What inspired you to be a PTA? As a person who has had chronic back pain for all of my adult life, physical therapy consistently made the biggest difference for me and kept me moving. Before becoming a PTA, I was a massage therapist for 10 years where I had a lot of patients who were happy to come see me for help relieving pain, but were hesitant to go to physical therapy for a variety of reasons, even though getting stronger would help to keep them out of pain.

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