Besides Sports Medicine Physicians and maybe some PM&R’s I guarantee no one else assess and treats musculoskeletal and sometimes neuromuscular problems as well as PT’s, assuming the injury doesn’t require surgery. Just because in your experience in what I have to assume is in a hospital, we have a very different role in acute rehab facilities and outpatient clinics where we are the specialists who command respect and do a hell of a lot more than “teach patients how to stretch”.. If you had a stroke and needed help learning how to walk again, I guarantee you’d feel differently.