My pt tore my rotator cuff. Be careful. Go to someone experienced and start slow. It only takes a second to get injured and the damage can't easily be fixed. Also since many pts are very healthy and active physically, they do not understand how fragile some people can be even though that's their job. I don't blame them in a way, I couldn't really imagine I'd get hurt as easily as I do now, and it's hard to understand that when you're coming from a place of total health. I used to be able to just do whatever and my body would comply, now if I do too much I strain or tear things. Not good.
I did get some benefit from it, however, before my shoulder injury. The pt stopped the tingling that was going down my arms, and I was happy about that. But then I started trusting them too much, and that's when I got hurt. I think they felt confident too because of the success, and they got too aggressive when pushing on my shoulder. Overall, I think you can find out what exercises to do from the internet. Or just go to the consult. Get a print out of their exercises and go from there. Just work up to it all slowly even if it seems very easy and like it's not helping much. For me, I never feel the extent of the damage until the next morning, even when I tore my shoulder. So I have to give workouts 24 hours before I know if I went too far, I guess because that's how long it takes for the inflammation to really set in and hurt.
For me gentle exercise/stretching on my own and daily massage (I bought my own amazing massage table) has worked best and if I hurt myself at least I have no one to blame but myself which is how I prefer it.
