Are PT exercises just masturbation?

**seanh012** · 02-02-2012, 08:41 PM

Hi,

I had a microdiscectomy 6 weeks ago and I am totally pain free now, only minor stiffness sometimes. For 4 weeks now, I've been faithfully doing all of the daily PT exercises that are supposed to activate your multifidus and transverse abs, etc. I started the Bill Star protocol a few days ago, its not causing me any problems.

I get the sense you feel traditional PT is BS, but I really do think this gal has helped me at least improve my kinesthetic awareness, if not outright sped up my recovery.

Question is: should I drop the PT at this point?

Also, I really want to bang my physical therapist.

Thanks
Sean

**Mark Rippetoe** · 02-02-2012, 09:20 PM

You "get the sense" that I feel traditional PT is bullshit? My god, how have I given you that impression?

**seanh012** · 02-02-2012, 09:22 PM

Do those exercises do nothing at all? Is it pure placebo?

**skipbeat** · 02-02-2012, 09:26 PM

Pay her to show you a bunch of sexual exercises and take your chances, if you miss at least you tried and you don't have to pay her anymore.

**BillBrownley** · 02-02-2012, 09:26 PM

The term "I get the sense", or as it is often used in the format of board meetings "It is the sense of the Board", is a way to state a bullshit proposition for which you have no facts or logic (or at least none you wish to articulate) yet have it sound like there is some kind of judicious thought or deep consideration that has gone into your bullshit proposition.

**BillBrownley** · 02-02-2012, 09:28 PM

Plus, he really wants to bang his PT. I think he is asking for your sense regarding that proposition.

**Mark Rippetoe** · 02-02-2012, 09:31 PM

Fuck the snot out of the girl. But don't pay her to show you how to do back exercises with 3 lb. dumbbells.

**PackMule** · 02-02-2012, 09:37 PM

So at this point, PT exercises AREN'T masturbation.

**Grant Mccaulley** · 02-02-2012, 09:39 PM

PT is just as effective as time going on and on and on in regards to healing anything, or just moving around as a sendentary person would, basically the control group!

Maybe just maybe after a surgery the caring smile and gentle hand they place on you is worth some amount of healing, if the hot chick is your pt then you would heal faster and more completely.

Grant