Dear Listserv members:
With the recent onslaught of personal attacks and unprofessional discussions, I find it an opportune time for comments such as Dirk's to arise. I could not have put it better myself.
As for the notion that physical therapy should veer towards science and the notion of proof and disproof of theories and approaches, it is something that seems to steer away from what we as students, educators and professionals in the fields of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and athletic therapy have learned and what, as a result, we practice everyday.
M.A. MacConaill said it best in his foreword to Kaltenborn's Manual Mobilizations of the Extremities: "To comfort always, to alleviate often, to cure sometimes: these are the three aims of the healer." Now, if science and test tubes and research and proving or disproving theories and approaches allows us to better comfort our patients, and to alleviate more symptoms, and to hopefully increase our "curing" rate, then more power to it. But, like other issues in our field, we should not let this cloudy matter block our vision of what we have accomplished, what we are accomplishing, and more importantly, what we have yet to and will accomplish.
Trusting the words of a humble student will offend little,
Jason
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The mistakes we regret in life are not as important as the lessons we should draw from them
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