Rege,
Thank you for posting your point of view.
While I appreciate and understand your views, it is my opinion that PT's do
not "heal." I would rather we use the words facilitate, assist, and perhaps
see us like a catalyst to healing, because the body is quite an effective
healing system. In saying this, I agree with you that we should not dispel
certain treatment techniques until comprehensive studies have been done. We
all have good examples where U/S does work and seems to work well in certain
patients (your vast wealth of experience would tell you that).
As with Smith's figure of 15%, there was an article entitled "The evidence
for evidence-based medicine" written by Imrie and Ramey (published in
Complementary Therapies in Medicine 2000, 8, 123-126). In this, they stated
that the claim that only 20% or less of standard Western medicine is
evidence-based "...should be rejected, as should logically fallacious
arguments based on such claims. The evidence fails to support them."
Henry***
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