Kevin,
If you read my e-mails, I said that most students including myself in my
year despised electrotherapy and promised never to use it, because the older
tutors would make use use it with every single patient for any condition...
the rationale would always be that it helps to increase blood flow and
advance the inflammatory process. It was a recipe and it made physiotherapy
boring.
When I left uni and got into private practice, I started looking into the
research and talking to a few chiropractors (who use to be physiotherapists)
and physio's, and their point of view is that electrotherapy plays a part in
treatment. Like many other techniques, electrotherapy has long been abused
by the physiotherapy profession, and now by the chiropractic profession
(many chiro's are using electrotherapy now!). What they recommend and this
changed my dislike about electrotherapy was that if one use it wisely and
for a reason that is scientifically proved, then it will have an effect.
Most of physiotherapy, like electrotherapy, is lacking hard scientific
evidence. People can form an opinion, but later change it, and I believe
this is good because it shows that they are open minded and not stubborn
enough to simply hang on to their old beliefs.
Looking through the literature recently, so much attention has been placed
on the lumbar and cervical spine, but there is not too much literature on
the efficacy of our techniques on the thoracic spine... and yet we continue
to use it knowing that it works, and waiting for the evidence to come out
one day (I know in the US they have just started look at the thoracic spine
now!).
Henry***
>From: "k.reese" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: ELECTROTHERAPY
>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:48:36 -0000
>
>Dear Henry
>
>How can you be neither for or against something, yet still despise it?. I
>certainly would not like to be in your bad books, goodness knows how you
>would feel.
>
>Regards Kevin Reese UK PT.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Henry Tsao <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 1:07 AM
>Subject: Re: ELECTROTHERAPY
>
>
> > Dr Siff,
> >
> > I will go and have a look a these articles. As I have emphaised, I am
>not
> > universally dismissing any electrotherapy, because I use it myself (and
>if
>I
> > did, then I would be a hypocrite!!). No, I believe electrotherapy plays
>a
> > role in manual therapy, but all I am saying is that if this is not
>carefully
> > studied and analyzed in this age of evidence based practice, it will not
> > survive!!
> >
> > Henry***
> >
> >
> > >From: [log in to unmask]
> > >Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: ELECTROTHERAPY
> > >Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:41:45 EDT
> > >
> > >On 10/20/00, [log in to unmask] writes:
> > >
> > ><< Going through an undergraduate degree whereby electrotherapy was
>focused
> > >so
> > >much and yet despised by most students(including myself), I am not for
>or
> > >against electrotherapy. However, I believe (and this is only my
>opinion)
> > >that unless there is more research for the efficacy of electrotherapy,
>not
> > >too many future physiotherapists will include it in their treatment
>regime.
> > > >>
> > >
> > >***Before you universally dismiss the value of all types of
> > >electrostimulation, you would find it interesting to read some more of
>the
> > >hundreds of journal articles on the different applications of ES. To
> > >assist
> > >you in your search, you may read a web article (plus several hundred
> > >references on microcurrent) that I wrote on the possible applications
>of
> > >macrocurrent "Faradic, Interferential, Galvanic) and microcurrent
> > >stimulation
> > >in sports training and rehabilitation:
> > >
> >
> >http://24.16.71.95/SPORTSCI/JANUARY/macrocurrent_and_microcurrent_el.htm
>
> > >
> > >Dr Mel C Siff
> > >Denver, USA
> > >[log in to unmask]
> > >http://www.egroups.com/group/supertraining
> > >
> >
> >
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