The patient arrives with the knee brace, the ice pack and an article they found online about the lower back. The physical therapist arrives with one conclusion, and it fits in a single sentence. This physical therapy tote bag carries it from clinic to car to gym and back again.
The verdict sits up top in two rows of tall, heavy capitals: IT'S ALWAYS THE GLUTES. Below it is the case file. Four grumpy little patients stand in a line with their complaints: a knee pressing an ice pack to itself, a stack of lumbar vertebrae wrapped in a bandage, a hip that is mostly pelvis and an ankle strapped into a brace. Every one of them is pointing at the real culprit in the middle, a smug cartoon peach in a sweatband with its arms folded and its side-eye fully engaged. Thick outlines, flat fills and not a word of small type.
Long shoulder handles and a roomy interior, with space for a laptop, lunch and the bands you keep meaning to hand out.
It makes a great gift for the PT, PTA or DPT student in your life: the student heading out on clinical rotations, the home-health PT who lives out of a bag, or the whole team for October's PT Month.
Chest up. Glutes on. Carry on.
