Her mission every minute of the day is to uncover the…

Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.

— Paul Allen

“Physical therapy begins immediately and continues daily.”

— Adele Levine

“After a couple hours with a difficult and noncompliant patient, I sometimes felt a buzzing in my ear. Was my job sucking the life…

— Adele Levine

“Even the physical therapist, who until that day has been seen as an unwelcome tormentor, is pulled into the picture.”

— Adele Levine

“One patient got up and used his wound care supplies to tape his hospital door shut.”

— Adele Levine

“Physical therapy has a high burnout rate. The long hours of intense one-on-one time is emotionally fatiguing. And while we universally love our patients,…

— Adele Levine

“Whenever I saw a person I couldn't place, I quickly looked at their legs - as if that would help me identify them.”

— Adele Levine

“I got hit in the fucking head with the medicine ball.”

— Adele Levine

“Given how tedious and dull the hospital could be, I always expected hospital inpatients to be happy to see us. But they frequently had…

— Adele Levine

“Because if there's anything you need to be a physical therapist, it's a sense of humor.”

— Adele Levine

“Local grandmas came in and out of our clinic bringing homemade cookies and fudge, because nothing soothes phantom limb pain better than a homemade…

— Adele Levine

“Regardless of a patient's true motives to get out of bed, I always applaud on the inside. That's what physical therapy is all about.…

— Adele Levine

“They know what the Destroyer learned a long time ago—lying in bed doesn’t rehabilitate anyone.”

— Adele Levine

“No class in physical therapy school prepared me to counsel a patient dealing with a life-changing injury.”

— Adele Levine

“The last thing I wanted was to be another star player in their nightmare.”

— Adele Levine