THEODORE DALRYMPLE: Is Physical Therapy Overrated?

It’s always worked well for me. Though about 20 years ago I tore a rotator cuff (I thought if I could bench 275 I could incline-bench 275, which turned out to be incorrect) and I went through the regular physical therapy but couldn’t get past about 90% better. Then I ordered a book, The Seven-Minute Rotator Cuff Solution, and followed the exercises there and got up to about 98%. The remaining two percent took just about a decade to come back. Since then, I’ve been much more conservative about the amount of weight I lift . . .