I love your question. Approach it from a quixotic perspective. You are
facing a water-wheel and perceiving it a monster. Maybe PTs serve best as
Santo Panza (forgive the spelling). Since we do not know the types of
patients you treated a general perspective may apply. Do you think that your
skill: heals directly? educates and directs a path to healing? do you change
the patient by bursting thru the blades (walls) or thru the openings? do you
reach the mind as well as the body? do you interact? are you dogmatic,
thinking that a given technique is the answer? If you manipulate it will go
away? Is pain for you objective or subjective? do you read OTHER stuff to
enhance your humane skills? did they teach you in school the answers or the
questions? does the brain start as the skin or the cortex? have you changed
spark plugs, oil, air filter of a car? blistered your hands with field work?
WHAT is the wall that you speak of?
Be Panza. Read Cervantes
Joe
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 9:29 AM
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> Subject: Despair and Despondency
>
> After 5 years as a physio I have hit a wall! It appears that little, if
> any,
> of what we practise is proven to work. It feels that I am selling
> something
> which I no longer believe in. Before I embark on an alternative career
> does
> anyone have any words of comfort [with references please :o) ]
>
> Stewart Harrison
> Physiotherapist
> UK
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