The Sports Physical Therapy Academy Podcast · Dr. Chris Garcia

EP177: "2025 Goals For Sports PTs"

·20 min·1 clip
A veteran PT confessed to Chris Garcia that after 20 years, he felt he had just repeated the same year of experience over and over without real progress.
Host Chris Garcia, a sports physical therapy specialist, provides a step-by-step framework for PTs to set impactful 2025 goals. He argues against passive professional development, urging listeners to first plan personal happiness (like vacations), then brutally assess and attack their clinical weaknesses instead of endlessly refining strengths, to avoid career stagnation and 'PT burnout'.

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A hard nudge for sports PTs who keep confusing motion with progress.

Chris Garcia frames sports PT goal setting as a yearly check on whether the work is actually going somewhere. The episode keeps returning to the same pressure point: if there is no clear plan for CEUs, weak spots, or broader development, progress tends to drift.

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Plan your 2025 sports PT move before the year plans you.

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