Resume Experience MITCHELL D. WATSON

AMARILLO, TEXAS 806-***-****

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Amarillo, Texas 79106

Previously as a Physical Therapist my career focus was to maximize patients’ capacity to heal through a personalized style of mobility and functional training. That is what patient’s always say brings them back to me if they ever incur a new injury or impairment… now my focus is to be the best employee I can be so I can help my company as well as achieve maximum status available within that company.

EXPERIENCE

1/1989 – 5/1993

EXERCISE TRAINER, GOLD’S GYM AMARILLO

Accompany clients and direct their exercise programs based on client goals.

1/1990 – 8/1991

PHYSICAL THERAPIST AIDE, PANHANDLE SPORTS MEDICINE

Accompany orthopedic patients and direct their exercise program as instructed by my managing therapist (Outpatient Sport Medicine clinic owned by Bill Barnhill M.D. –member of USA Ski Team Medical Staff).

8/1991-5/1993 (ATTENDED AMARILLO COLLEGE PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT PROGRAM)

5/1993 – 5/1996

PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT, REHABILITY

Implement POC and Treat in multiple setting (Outpatient Sport Medicine as well as nursing home and rural hospital contracts within 100 mile radius of Lubbock, Texas).

2/1996 – 11/1997

PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT, (SELF EMPLOYEED) CONTRACT HOME HEALTH

Implement POC and Treat in Home setting within 200 mile radius of Lubbock, Texas.

8/1996 (STARTED PT BRIDGE PROGRAM)

11/1997-5/1999 (STARTED SPORT NUTRITION STORE IN AMARILLO, TEXAS AND COMPLETED PT SCHOOL)

5/1999-3/2001 (CONTINUED STUDYING FOR PT BOARD EXAM WHILE MANAGING MY SPORT NUTRITION STORE)

3/2001 – 4/2003

SUPERVISING PHYSICAL THERAPIST, ENCOMPASS HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE (CONTRACT PT)

Evaluate/Implement POC and Treat, as well as establish treatment plan for PTA’s under my supervision. Facilitate and schedule my team of 13 PTA staff, coordinate, problem solve and correct situations as needed.

10/2002 – 5/2018

PHYSICAL THERAPIST OWNER/OPERATOR, IN MOTION PHYSICAL THERAPY & PREVENTION

Evaluate/Establish POC and treat any injury or impairment that happened to walk through my door, supervise and facilitate PTA and Tech staff. Hiring all necessary staff to maintain clinic.

11/2006 – 4/2012 RETURNED 7/2018 TO CURRENT

MANAGING PHYSICAL THERAPIST, ACUTE & CHRONIC PAIN AND SPINE CENTER

Credentialed and Established Physical Therapy Entity, Staffed 3rd party payer liaison for allscheduling, benefits, eligibility and treatment pre-authorization. Evaluate/Implement POC and Treat, supervise and facilitate PTA and Tech staff.

6/2016 – 3/2018

SUPERVISING PHYSICAL THERAPIST, KINDRED HOME HEALTH

Evaluate/Implement POC and Treat, as well as establish treatment plan for PTA’s under my supervision. Facilitate PTA staff.

5/2018 – CURRENT

PHYSICAL THERAPIST, NORTHWEST TEXAS HOSPITAL (INPATIENT ACUTE PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND INPATIENT REHAB)

Evaluate/Implement POC and Treat, as well as establish treatment plan for PTA’s under my supervision. Facilitate PTA staff.

3/2003 – 5/2020

SUPERVISING PHYSICAL THERAPIST, VARIOUS LOCAL INPATIENT REHAB HOSPITALS

Evaluate/Implement POC and Treat, as well as establish treatment plan for PTA’s under my supervision.

Supervise and facilitate PTA staff.

11/15/2021 - CURRENT I received my class B commercial drivers license and started driving 3 x a day school bus route. I was shortly thereafter hired on by the mechanic shop that performed all the repairs and maintenance on the school buses. This includes changing oil and filters as well as fuel and transmission filters. I also perform routine repair and replacement of various bus parts from alternators, diesel turbo parts, entire brake pad/drum replacement, hub bearings, coolant pumps, radiators and all other external engine repairs. Currently I continue to drive bus route and work in the maintenance shop throughout the day between bus routes.

EDUCATION

MAY 1993

ASSOCIATES PHYSICAL THERAPIST ASSISTANT

Married my wife of today and Right Hand business partner a few weeks before school started.

MAY 1999

MASTER OF PHYSICAL THERAPY, NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

This program was different than typical lecture based learning, it was a problem based learning format where we approached learning via case-study and problem solving. My wife endured myflying to Ft. Lauderdale from Texas panhandle as she kept our boys for 90 weekends over the 3 year grad program.

SKILLS

It is easier to say what I don’t have - I do not hold a certification or specialty in Manual therapy, however; I can utilize the techniques when the need arises. I apply Functional Therapeutic Activities and Exercise in a manner that allows the patient to joint mobilize through the activities that

CORE BELIEFS and MY APPROACH to HEALTH CARE

I am efficient in injury prevention and all types of joint rehabilitation whether a result of degeneration, trauma or neurological episodes.

I encourage exercise, nutrition and weight management as I have very much “bought into” and apply in my own life. The weekly exercise demands which I encourage in my patients are key to managing injuries orimpairments in their future. “If you don’t practice what you preach then what kind of a preacher are you”?

Since I have owned and operated an outpatientPT clinic for 16 years I am very much aware and sympathetic to the inner workings and what is required to maintain a practice. I teach them (teaching the patient to be more independent in treating their own impairment rather than depending on someone else to manage their condition)

I am not trained in dry needling.

I have little to no experience with pediatric neuro-development.

I work well with others and understand that a practice is only as good as its weakest link so I go out of my way to try to understand those around me and thus create a win/win situation if possible.

Diabetes is so drastically affecting ourculture, I have given special attention to the physiology of different forms of exercise and which types are most valuable in diabetic health and fitness. This is an area that I hope to specificallypractice at some point in my career.

Exercise as “Preventative Medicine” is another platform that I am passionate about, training up patients to be responsible in continuing their plan of care after discharge so they will build confidence in establishing the changes needed for a better quality of life.

ACTIVITIES

I am very involved in my church and family outside of work, I play drums on the praise team and my wife

and I host or attend bible study. I have three children and two grandchildren that keep my wife and I very busy with football games, soccer ect. I make myself available for anyone that has questions about physical therapy outside of work as well; it is a passion for me and a way of life not just an 8-5 job.

I have known my wife for 32 years and have been married for 28. She has helped me in our practice at In Motion Physical Therapy and also at Texas Pain and Spine for over 15 years.

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