First coffee, first patient, first complaint of the day: the knee. By the second cup it is the lower back, and by lunch someone is sure it is the hip. Every physical therapist knows where each of those stories ends. This funny physical therapy mug sits on the desk and says it for you.
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.
The design wraps both sides, so it reads whichever way you pick it up.
It makes a great gift for the PT, PTA or DPT student in your life: the new graduate setting up a first desk, the clinic director who has heard every theory about every knee, or the whole team for October's PT Month.
Refill. Then do your bridges.
