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malfistyesterday at 1:45 PM0 repliesview on HN

On the plus side, it's not like it was blind faith. Human judgement lead me to seek out another expert when I didn't like with the current PT was suggesting I do (no practicing hip hinge movements before moving to deadlift, advising against valsava for heavy lifts, ignoring feedback that a movement was causing pain, prescribing stretches to increase flexibility in a hypermobile person).

The LLM also gave me a bunch of questions to ask a new PT but I didn't have the understanding to judge the responses so I did more research. One of the things the LLM wanted me to ask about was questions about form and force closure and ideally would get a response about the oblique sling across the back. My PT didn't give me that exact response, but explained it in much more lay person terms, but because I had done my research I was able to validate their response was directionally correct. And so far, my experience with this PT has been much better. We're doing block pulls at 70% of my prior deadlift weight, next week we're going to go way back on weight and lower it some to get closer to proper deadlifting and work in some asymmetric loading exercises.