>Dear Simon
>
> It is not a slight on our profession that we use
>techniques we can completely justify but that we keep using them with
>little or no thought.
Maybe I'm being a bit picky about semantics......but I really don't have any
problem with using techniques with little thought if I've used them a
hundred times before for similar musculoskeletal lesions when I know they
work. I cannot believe that having made your diagnosis of say shin splints
and having decided that one of several elements leading to this problem is
tight gastrocs that you don't go right ahead and do some soft tissue work
to the offending musculature and teach the patient to stretch. I do it every
week and don't think about it....
OK that's a pretty basic example but let's face it, a lot of our work (or
mine anyway) is fairly routine. I suppose I must adjust three or four L5/S1
's daily: again, having made my diagnosis I go right ahead and do it.
Sophie
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