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Free weight training gets workers with rotator cuff injuries back on the job

Resistance training, some of it job-specific, was successful in getting 90 percent of workers with severe rotator cuff injuries back to work, the majority -- 75 percent -- at their previous job, after traditional physical therapy had failed to do so.

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