Thanx Anne, I will have a read of this.
Henry***
>From: "Hassenkamp, Anne-Marie" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: RE: evidence based practice...
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:19:58 +0100
>
>Dear Henry, have you read the recent article by Tim Watson in 'Manual
>Therapy' ?
>Watson T (2000) The role of electrotherapy in contemporary physiotherapy
>practice. Manual Therapy,5,3,132-141.
>Anne-Marie Hassenkamp
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Henry Tsao [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 16 October 2000 11:43
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: evidence based practice...
> >
> > Recently, since I have joined the mailbase, I have found myself
>searching
> > for research and looking for answers behind what I am actually doing. I
>have
> > continued to question my work. From what I know, it seems that everybody
>is
> > interested in evidence based practice.
> >
> > However, I was talking to Megan Dalton, who is a well known
>physiotherapist
> > in Australia early last week. She is a very out spoken Physio and a very
> > interesting physio to talk to (I have seen her talk in 2 occasions, and
>she
> > just has so much energy!!). She told me that it seemed ridiculous that
> > Physiotherapy departments in Australia don't teach Mulligan's, Mckenzie
>and
> > other radical techniques, for the pure reason that there is not enough
> > evidence. However, (and I know that this is true for me) they teach so
>much
> > electrotherapy, most of which does not have too much research anyway
>(due
> > mostly to the difficulty of these techniques), and this seemed very
>ironical
> > to her and to me also.
> >
> > Megan perceived the future of physiotherapy to be with little or no
> > electrotherapy (which to me is a very big step), and I just wanted to
>ask
> > what people in this mailbase thought about this claim. To let people
>know,
> > the electro I use is a Likon, ultrasound, at time the interferential
>(which
> > I do not use too often these days), and very rarely the magnetic wave. I
> > tried to search for research the other day, but obviously was limited in
> > what I found. any thoughts or ideas??
> >
> > Henry***
> >
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