> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mclean, Chris
> Sent: 31 August 1999 14:38
> To: Chris McLean (E-mail)
> Subject: Clinical reasoning
>
> It saddens me when people write in with their techniques which seem to
> have no evidence to back it up (iontophoresis involves driving an
> anti-inflammatory into the body, if indeed it does enter the body at all,
> using a pro-inflammatory energy source) or that the method makes no common
> sense (abdominal trigger pointing of the psoas major muscle, I am glad
> it's not my aorta, intestines and kidneys being compressed). Does anyone
> else think about evidence based clinical practice ? I know one can not
> prove everything but shouldn' t we, as a profession strive towards this ?
> It may produce more questions than answers but at least we would be
> thinking.
> Does anyone else use clinical reasoning or a problem solving approach ?
> Does anyone think that 'recipe physiotherapy' is lazy and ignores the
> individual ? Are enough of us reading the latest research and literature
> ?
>
> Simon Mesner on Chris McLean's e-mail address
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