I tried physical therapy a while back. It was an exercise in futility. I was given ten PT appointments, and I went to each one faithfully. But they wouldn't let me exercise. I have had well-controlled high blood pressure for a long time. But every time I'd show up at the hospital's PT department, my BP would skyrocket. So they couldn't let me exercise at all. Twice my PCP even gave me drugs to take the morning of the PT appointment, but it didn't help.