Therapists trained to exercise right muscles, make them work again

"One of our patients last year was a 79-year-old man from near Orangeburg. Three years earlier he had badly injured his spine (backbone). Months of recommended exercises helped little. Forced to cease any yard work, he could not even bend over to pull on his shoes, and the pains usually awakened him after four hours of sleep," says John Lukowski, director of Healthplex, the Regional Medical Center's rehabilitation clinic.