Maybe we should wait for John's answers before we get upset.
Nobody has "rehabilitation" to themselves.
They don't call themselves PTs because they are not. This petty turf war is
just like the one going on with athletic trainers (in Virginia the law has
been changed so that no one but a licensed person can apply ultrasound in
the clinic, even though trainers do it all the time in the training room,
crazy I tell ya!)
(Thanks for your input John, I bet you are working within your state's
practice guideline and providing the best care you know how!!)
Cheers
Michael Meddows
Skeptical but tolerant Physiotherapy Association
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason A. Steffe <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: CHIRO & PT
>
>
> ----------
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: CHIRO & PT
> > Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 9:32 AM
> >
> > In a message dated 3/23/99 5:01:23 AM Central Standard Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > <<
> > Where did you do your training so that it might be possible to
> appreciate
> > your bvackground. I know that the McKenzie Institute is now teaching
in
> > ?National College in the states and seems to consider the chiropractic
> > approach as "scientific".
> >
> > Hope that you continue as a Lister and not a Lurker!
> >
> > Cheers, Ross.
> > >>
> >
> > I am finishing up my studies at Parker College of Chiropractic in
Dallas,
> USA.
> > The curriculum includes not only several chiropractic techniques and a
> solid
> > basic and clinical sciences core but we also study physiotherapy,
>
>
> What "Physiotherapy" do you learn?
>
> > rehabilitation
>
> What "rehabilitation" do you learn?
>
> and soft tissue work. Along with two public clinics our campus
> > has a very well equipped rehabilitation center with a full-time rehab
> staff to
> > support those patients who need such care. Our hands-on courses cover
> the
>
> What is the extent of the training of the rehab staff? What codes are
> being used for billing? Are they PT codes? Do they call the rehab
> physical therapy?
>
> > material of not only chiropractors but such names as Hoppenfeld,
Caillet,
> > Kendall & McCreary, Travell & Simmons, Janda, McKenzie, etc. There are
> some
> > faculty at the school who teach that adjusting the spine makes miracles
> happen
> > (a la freed nerve energy) but this is accepted with varying degrees by
> the
> > student body and the more extreme of these people are generally
snickered
> at.
> > At least a couple of schools such as Life and Sherman still do teach
this
> to
> > the extreme though. For the record, applied kinesiology, cranial
> adjusting,
> > magnets, crystal waving, chicken bone throwing, and telepathic telephone
> > surrogate muscle testing of someone's possessed cat are NOT chiropractic
> even
> > though television tabloid hidden cameras may find someone doing these
> things
> > who happens to be a chiropractor.
>
> Janda, Kendall, McKenzie, and Travell aren't chiropractic as well.
>
> Doesn't this post upset anybody? Why don't they just call themselves
> PT's?!
>
> >
> > John Lowry
> > chiropractic intern
>
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