People Are Turning to YouTube and Instagram for Physical Therapy

High costs and lack of coverage are pushing people to online PT

Ashwin Rodrigues
Elemental
Published in
6 min readNov 18, 2019

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Various fitness equipment such as yoga mats, exercise balls, free weights, and rubber bands projecting out of a phone screen.
Illustration: Jaedoo Lee

TTrusting the internet for medical advice has always been a crapshoot. A runny nose paired with a vivid imagination can quickly metastasize to a terminal prognosis from a number of sources, and often you don’t know the qualifications and motivations…

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