Physical therapy ham I'm in physical therapy because I've been dealing with some gnarly IT band syndrome from running. Yesterday I was there and a ham was also there for a "running related injury." He was tall, close to 6ft, but also very overweight. He was definitely over 250 maybe 300(I'm bad at guessing weight) but he had injured his knee running a 5k. The first moment he's on the table being evaluated he says "put the electrical stimulation on it that helped last time I was in PT." So the PT puts e-stim on his knee, after it's done, he demands it be iced. Again, lazy therapy. He doesn't want to move. So the PT complies and puts ice on it. Finally the PT starts having him do PHYSICAL THERAPY. First she has him lift his leg 3 inches off the table and flex his quads. Nope, too much work, can't do it. She asks if it hurts. He says, "well no....just kinda hard to do." No wonder. She hands him one of those stretch out straps that help you stretch further. So the PT is taking notes on him while he is stretching and the first stretch is a basic hamstring stretch. Except he could only get his leg halfway up. 30 seconds in he's already bitching that it's been 30 seconds and puts his leg down. Now, when I get to stretch at PT I enjoy it because they push my leg and help me and I like to stretch for as long as possible.  To me it just seems like he is wasting his money on PT because you have ice at home and a TENS unit(which is pointless anyway to me) is like $20 at CVS. He wouldn't even do the minimal exercises they were demanding of him.