They forget how to do what they do when you don't use them. They also get weak. Before King's untimely calamity, he was working out three times a week. But as the strength drained from his atrophying muscles, King dwindled to a scary 160 pounds. That's why we start as soon as possible.
Rehabilitation is about preventing the damaging effects of immobilization.
Each year an estimated 72 million Americans experience serious injury, stroke or disabling disease. Rehabilitation has none of the glamour or elegance of brain surgery and lacks the gritty heroism of emergency room medicine. Instead, rehabilitation and physical therapy are about blood, sweat and tears. There's no magic bullet. We can't rescue you.