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Does Anyone Love Doing Physical Therapy?

By Shoba Sreenivasan, Linda E. Weinberger — 2019

“Physical therapy.” Just the mention of these words elicits a variety of feelings and thoughts surrounding this form of treatment—many of which are not positive.

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