Dear Mel
I love it, the greatest gift a teacher can give, is that they teach their
students how to learn.
The best example of this I have seen is ' multi-segmental vertebral
dysfunction', ie they have a problem somewhere in the spine. Warm Regards
Kevin
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Date: 26 June 1999 06:39
Subject: GURU THESAURUS
>Here is a system which will enable anyone to sound like a real authority in
>the world of therapy, training and teaching. It is based on a little
>exercise which I periodically used with my medical, physio, physical
>education and engineering students to teach them the importance of clarity
of
>expression and audience awareness (Siff M C 'Technical Communication
>Assignments' 1980).
>
>On a less serious note, I encouraged them to use this list (or others based
>on their own choice of words) to make them sound rather erudite if anyone
>ever used that old trick of throwing in complex-sounding terminology to
>appear more educated than they really are.
>
>The secret matrix which is issued from above to all aspiring gurus appears
>below. You can use to sound like a real 'guru' in your profession. To use
>it is simple. Just throw together a cell from each column at random, such
as
>A2/B5/C7. Read off what this represents, namely:
>
> "acyclical lumbomechanical trajectory"
>
> What about "imbalanced lumbomechanical synergism"?
> Or "ipsilateralised biosequential tonus" ?
> Or "aberrant force-coupled pattern" ?
>
>Then drop into into any email or discussion and you will immediately be
>recognised as the definitive guru of training and therapy, especially if
your
>audience happens to be the general public.
>
>Doesn't this sound like some folk whom you have met who like to think that
>they are real authorities, especially when they invariably fail to explain
>the jargon which they frequently use?
>
>THE GURU TERMINOLOGY KIT
>
> A B
C
>
> 1 inverse neuromotoric pattern
> 2 acyclical force-coupled sequence
> 3 sympathetic articularised rhythm
> 4 retrograde endokinetic tempo
> 5 imbalanced lumbomechanical process
> 6 interdigitated biosequential protocol
> 7 anterosuperior thoracotendinous trajectory
> 8 ipsilateralised aponeurotic synergism
> 9 aberrant adductocentric posture
>10 biofactorial symptomatised manipulation
>
>Have some fun with it - refuse to be intimidated by those who try to
befuddle
>you with terminology and immediately respond in like fashion with this your
>own "private terminological generator" (how's that for a 'guru' word?).
>
>Dr Mel C Siff
>Denver, USA
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