PT wouldn't do any good unless he knew what he was looking at and could direct the therapist (we work off the doctor's prescription and diagnosis). And he'd have to know what he was looking at to decide if it was the sort of mechanical issue PT would help in the first place.

I get steamed up over docs who send patients to PT just to get 'em out of their hair.

There are some things for which PT is inappropriate.

(I had a patient years ago who clearly had a kidney infection, but her doc just kept sending her back to PT for back pain and wouldn't listen to us. And the patient wouldn't stand up for herself. She eventually got so sick she stopped coming to therapy. I often wonder what happened to her.)