When the public receives physical therapy treatment, people deserve to know what treatment they are receiving and that the person performing the treatment is a licensed physical therapist who has the requisite education and training to provide it. Unfortunately, people who are not licensed physical therapists have held themselves out to the public as providing “physical therapy” or “physiotherapy,” or use the initials “PT” to describe their services. It’s misleading, unethical, and, in some states, illegal.