09/10/2019 12:00:00 AMStephanie ThurrottWhen you think of the field of physical therapy, you might imagine athletic trainers and medical rehabilitation experts—a focus on mind, body, and spirit from a physical therapy perspective might not come to mind right away. This is understandable, as the field has traditionally centered around the physical aspects of injury and recovery. But there’s a growing body of evidence that treating the whole person (the spiritual and emotional needs along with the physical) is crucial to healing.