In his Treatise of Hygiene in 1199 AD, Maimonides remarked that “Anyone who lives
a sedentary life and does not exercise, even if he eats good foods and takes care
of himself according to proper medical principles—all his days shall be painful ones
and his strength shall wane.” Indeed, since the beginning of the last millennium,
physical therapy and exercise have played an increasingly popular and substantiated
role in the management of pain.
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Address reprint requests to, Mark J. Gloth, DO, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Rehabilitation Hospital, at Union Memorial Hospital, 201 East University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21218
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