Help me become an expert Physical Therapist of my own body.

http://www.mobilitywod.com/ -- "all human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1936608588/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ Is written by the Mobility WOD guy.

Becoming a Supple Leopard has already changed my life and I've only had it for a few weeks. The tools and exercises that he prescribes are all fairly inexpensive and easy to do. Some of them require access to a barbell or kettlebell, but the majority don't. You can cover a lot of ground with a resistance band and a couple lacrosse balls or tennis balls. It can't hurt to just start going through the mWOD videos from the beginning, too, and skipping over the ones you can't do for lack of equipment. The mWOD site used to be really hard to navigate but it was redesigned around the same time as the book release and is now a bit easier to work through. Also, not quite "self PT," but it might be worth looking at http://gymnasticswod.com/, run by Carl Paoli (who works with Kelly Starrett, the mWOD guy). Lots of bodyweight exercises there and progressions to build up to more advanced stuff that will help keep you limber and strong.

As long as you have an internet connection you can stay pretty well apprised of PT as far as basic self-assessment and prehab program design goes. It may not be as good as in-person assessment from a professional, but you may find that being forced to self-educate could well be more beneficial for you in the long run than just being able to outsource the job to someone else. As well as the aforementioned MWOD, here's some stuff to bookmark: http://www.ericcressey.com/articles http://robertsontrainingsystems.com/blog/category/anatomy/ http://bretcontreras.com/ http://www.8weeksout.com/videos/ http://www.functionalmovement.com/ http://www.stopchasingpain.com/blog/ http://www.rehabgate.com/vb/ http://www.somasimple.com/forums/index.php http://saveyourself.ca/ http://www.thesportsphysiotherapist.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/TheGaitGuys#p/u Reddit also has lots of good subs, from the vast but varying http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness and http://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ to very empirically grounded http://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom and the sparse but super brainy http://www.reddit.com/r/AdvancedFitness. Finding and engaging with a good online fitness community, preferably one that involves your sports, is the best thing you can do to make a habit out of learning.

For what it's worth my PT mentioned Becoming a Snow Leopard the other day. Her view is that it's a good resource to be used in conjunction with a PT.

Check out http://idoportal.blogspot.hk/. It's pretty scattered but he has loads of entries on there with videos linked. He's also my hero. I want to be able to move like him

nthing KStar and Paoli AND Ido.

A good physical therapist will teach you how to do appropriate exercises yourself. Don't feel uncomfortable asking if your therapist hasn't brought this up to you yet of their own accord. This isn't like asking your barber about how to cut your own hair -- they are supposed to teach you self care to avoid injury in the future.