Hi Jason
Thank you for your support of my point of view.
I know that PT modalities do not come out well in the research
literature for this type of condition but as a physio who has been
working in Private Practice for 21 years, I feel that the research
misses out a vital ingredient when you are dealing with people - the
very fact that they are individuals who often tell you what they
think you want to hear eg 'I have been doing my exercises faithfully'
or 'I am not any better' when in fact they have litigation in
progress and have a vested interest in prolonging their treatment.It
looks better on the report if it took a LONG time to get better.
Therefore I feel that the current drive for research based practise,
laudable as that is, can often make good effective treatment
modalities seem the exact opposite just because the statistics are
based on what patients have said and not necessarily from clinicl
findings.
I will be interested to hear the views of other physios on
the use of current research methods to prove that out treatment
modalities do not work.
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