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Launching Your PT Career: 4 Questions for Deciding If Residency Is Right for You

This is the fourth blog post in Rizing Tide’s new series about launching your PT career and landing the right…

Launching Your PT Career: How to Choose a Specialty

This is the third blog post in Rizing Tide’s series about launching your PT career and landing the right PT…

Resilience, Growth, and Finding a Place in Physical Therapy: Meet Rizing Tide Surge Scholar Brandon Johnson

Brandon Johnson’s path to becoming a physical therapist was anything but linear. From the humble beginning of navigating his own…

How Four 2025 Crest Scholars Are Defining Their Careers in PT

The students in the 2025 Rizing Tide Crest Scholarship cohort are already looking to the future—and they’ve already started plotting…

Meet Four 2024 Crest Scholars

There’s no single path to becoming a physical therapist—but the range of stories behind what inspired many PTs’ journeys say…

Launching Your PT Career: Job Benefits to Look For and Questions to Ask During an Interview

This is the second blog post in Rizing Tide’s new series about launching your PT career and landing the right…

Launching Your PT Career: PT Job Interview Tips

This is the first blog post in Rizing Tide’s new series about launching your PT career and landing the right…

How a Week of Mission Work Redefined My Purpose as a Physical Therapist

In July of 2025, my cohort and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Lima, Perú, to perform mission…

How I Paid Off $250K in Student Loans One Year After Grad School

When I decided to go to graduate school for physical therapy, I was looking at more than $150,000 in student…

Pressure and Possibility in PT: Reflections from the 2026 Graham Sessions

What happens when early-career DPTs are invited into a room with seasoned industry leaders to talk openly and honestly about…

Yuri Kochiyama

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Yuri Kochiyama