{"id":5837,"date":"2020-09-27T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T15:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:26:52","slug":"embedded-pts-changing-the-face-of-physical-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/2020\/09\/embedded-pts-changing-the-face-of-physical-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedded PTs: Changing the Face of Physical Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a September APTA Magazine interview, DAHS alumna, retired Lt. Col. Drew Contreras, PT, DPT, says one reason for his successful career is that he does his best to treat every patient the same.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5838 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM-300x113.png\" alt=\"Drew Contreras\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM-600x226.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM.png 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That skill especially helped him not to be starstruck when he served from 2010 to 2017 at the White House as the first embedded PT in its medical unit. In addition to serving as President Barack Obama&#8217;s PT (a role he still fills for the now ex-president), Contreras treated members of Obama&#8217;s cabinet, senior White House officials, Secret Service agents, and the entire resident staff \u2014 including chefs, groundskeepers, and repair personnel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apta.org\/apta-magazine\/2020\/09\/01\/embedded-pts-changing-the-face-of-physical-therapy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a September APTA Magazine interview, DAHS alumna, retired Lt. Col. Drew Contreras, PT, DPT, says one reason for his successful career is that he does his best to treat every patient the same. That skill especially helped him not to be starstruck when he served from 2010 to 2017 at the White House as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/2020\/09\/embedded-pts-changing-the-face-of-physical-therapy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Embedded PTs: Changing the Face of Physical Therapy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81046,"featured_media":5838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM-300x113.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/583\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-30-at-2.54.48-PM-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"Drew Contreras","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/physical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}