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A5 proof of the value of conditioning, he points out that he played in 202 of 203 possible games during his “bone-crunching” career.
It wasn’t long before other players began to notice that McGee always seemed to be in pretty good shape and that despite his age, he continued to lead New England in quarterback “sacks” year after year.
“Other players began to come -over to my home to work out, and I’d put together programs for them,” he remembers, “That’s when I thought I might have the knack for [developing] programs.”
In the meantime, the years had begun to catch up with him. Still in good condition in his 11th season, “I got beat up pretty bad in 1981, and each week it seemed to get worse,” he says.
“Some friends recommended PT (physical therapy), but I thought I didn’t need it.”
Then one Monday morning he couldn’t lift his left arm, and he began seeing a physical therapist in Boston. For the rest of the season, he went to sessions every Monday -and Tuesday.
After that season, now in the twilight of his career, he was traded to the Washington Redskins.
“For the first year, I still lived in Boston and still went to PT,” he. says. “I started to watch other people work, I did some reading and research, and I sawr how conditioning and physical therapy could lengthen players’ careers.”
Building on some college courses in physical education and on his experiences and research, he opened his first physical therapy clinic in 1983.
His later operations in Washington, D.C., and in Falls Church were successful, but he recently consolidated them into the current location
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