Is physical therapy fraud?

Note the question.

The case for the use of multi-joint barbell exercise is a conclusive one,

tested over decades by the strongest men on earth,

and explained quite well by many writers on the subject over the years.

Mastodons like Doug Hepburn, Jim Williams, Doug Young, Roger E. Step, Dorian Yates,

Karwaski, Magnuson, Hammond have all used basic barbell exercises with heavy weights to build strength and muscle, the likes of which have never been produced using

exercise machines. The reason is simple and obvious. Squats, presses, dead lifts, bench presses,

and the Olympic lifts work the whole body at one time and therefore allow the use of enough weight to make dramatic

levels of stress and subsequently adaptation possible.

Chopping the body up into its constituent components and then working these components separately lacks the capacity

to make things change, because the stress that can be applied to one piece at a time

never adds up to the same stress that can be applied to the whole thing working as a system.

Well, the term synergy is the interaction of multiple elements in a system to produce a

coordinated effort greater than the sum of the individual effects of the separate elements.

The accumulated action of the parts functioning in their anatomically and biomechanically predetermined roles

as components in the complex system of levers and motors that comprise the musculoskeletal system

is the very definition of synergy. It is also the very definition of synergy.

It is also the very definition of coordination as well.

The normal functions of the different components of the musculoskeletal

system cannot be simulated by isolating them and making them work independently of their roles within the system,

because such a large part of their function involves their coordinated relationships with all the other components.

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