Thank you David for that! How is the UK (Lions) or the England rugby
team going at the moment??
Anyway back to physiotherapy. Just a comment on the previous dialogue
with regard to other alternative approaches to Maitland as a treatment
philosophy.
I am a principal lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology,
Physiotherapy School. I coordinate the postgraduate Masters courses in
Manipulative and Sports Physiotherapy here in Auckland, N.Z. We have a
very close working relationship with the Australian Universities (ie,
all the coordinators of the manipulative post grad programs meet every
two years) and we also see each other at most conferences 'down
under'. I am also a accredited Mulligan teacher.
Our courses in N.Z. (undergrad and postgraduate) teach an open and
across the board philosophy, with the foundation being a sound and
thorough clinical reasoning base. The general philosophies include
Kaltenborn, Maitland, Mulligan, Muscle balance (ala Queensland,
Sharmann etc), Cyriax, McKenzie etc etc (by the way McKenzie and
Mulligan are from N.Z.!)
Also we have now over the last 6-7 years had a huge transition of our
manipulative techniques from an osteopathic approach. This has come
from Michael Monaghan, another N.Z. physio who also trained in
Osteopathy in (London of all places). We in Australasia are very much
adopting this 'style' of manipulative management. In saying that
myself, Michael and Duncan Reid fly to Australia to teach.
If you are interested and have not heard of this approach look on our
web site and see the video that Michael and I made with regard to
these manipulative skills. The web address is:
http://www.aut.ac.nz/depts/physio/staff/profiles/whing.htm
I will be presenting at IFOMT at the teachers meeting on spinal
manipulation with Duncan Reid, hope to see you there.
Hope the above is helpful.
Wayne
By the way are any of you going to IFOMT in Perth starting on the 4th
November??
>>> [log in to unmask] 10/17/00 07:58 >>>
Like their rugby I suppose?!?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wayne Hing [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 17 October 2000 02:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: evidence based practice...
>
> They're learning them from New Zealand!!!
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 10/17/00 12:27 >>>
> Henry
>
> Although South African trained, I am working in the UK and have
> worked
> with or been associated with numerous physios from OZ. Almost
> without
> exception, they have all used elements of Maitland, Mulligan, soft
> tissue work akin to Travell and Simons, rehab and very little
> electrotherapy .
>
> Where are they learning these 'radical' techniques if not in
> Australia?
>
> dave riddell
>
>
> > 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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