Zuo

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Allegations in the Complaint and Amended Complaint2 Zuo’s complaint and amended complaint alleged that in December 2018 she worked in a factory and suffered a work-related shoulder injury, leading to a frozen left shoulder. She has not been employed since her injury. In May 2019, Zuo had surgery on her left shoulder. Zuo alleged that she had only the following injuries prior to commencing physical therapy: “a torn supraspinator muscle, inflammation on both [d]eltoid and [s]upraspinatus, [and] a depressed sub- [c]rominal space.” Prior to undergoing physical therapy, Zuo felt weakness in her left arm and shoulder and pain on her left side when turning while lying down. Zuo had two physical therapy sessions with Select in June 2019. She alleged that, although physical therapy was “pretty effective” and helped release her frozen shoulder, “[o]ne of [the] physical therapy exercises caused strong pain.” Zuo alleged that she only did “light housework” after leaving her job at the factory and receiving physical therapy. Zuo believed that the physical therapy “damage[d]” her deltoid muscle and the back of her left shoulder. She alleged that, even…