If you are having pain or difficulty moving around after injury or illness, you may benefit from the skilled services of a physical therapist. Your PT can help you regain strength and range of motion to improve your functional mobility and manage your pain. While the physical therapy profession can be very rewarding, there can also be challenging times. Sometimes patients fail to make progress despite the best efforts of everyone involved in the plan of care. Some patients lack motivation and require significant amounts of energy and encouragement to simply participate in an active rehabilitation program. When attending physical therapy, there are some things that you should say that can really make your PT happy, (There are some things your PT does not want to hear as well.)