I also moved from the Philippines back in '91, and went to NVCC for Physical Therapy.

I am a Respiratory Therapy with passion for investment.

@Scot Howat - Exposure of his experience is good therapy for him, and that's ok.But, as @Steve Smith said "Takes a lot of courage to post that you lost"So, as I have said before some people are comfortable about airing their failures and others are not.Our discourse will end at infinity without any wrong or right affirmation.I look forward to reading and/or commenting on your future posts.

I spent 8 months under Dr care and physical therapy 5 days a week and had to open every credit card I could get to use for living expenses such as rent, utilities, insurance, cell, food, ect.

@John Moorhouse Doctor Of Physical Therapy

If I'm not mistaken, all the .gov resources, while comprehensive, are not exactly succinct and a lot of massaging of data needs to be done in order to get any meaningful information out of it. 

Due to hamstring tear while performing, I recently had to leave the tour I was traveling with to take a few months off for recovery and physical therapy.

My wife took 500 hours of education to be a massage therapist in Colorado but it only took 50 hours to become a REALTOR.

Just be careful that you don't massage the numbers to make them look like they work. 

Audiology and physical therapy respectively.