Categorized as: Bad Back
18Mar SI Joint Mechanics in Manual Therapy: Relevance, Please?
In a separate post Publishing in Science: Are Industry Standards Serving Researchers, Clinicians and Science? Jason Silvernail and I outline some of the perceived cons of the current publishing paradigm. We describe our experience writing a letter to the editor of Manual Therapy. In the end, our goal was, and is, to express our interpretation
12Feb State-of-the-Art in Postural Control: Pelvic Floor
Dr. Paul Hodges undertook the difficult task of explaining the intricate connection between the respiratory / pelvic floor / and abdominal muscles. I have the difficult task of summarizing what he presented! Dr. Hodges has a presentation style I really enjoyed – pose a question first and then proceed to address that question. Question 1
29Jan Tim Flynn: Stop The Madness!
For your viewing pleasure, the honorable Dr. Timothy Flynn. Link to video
20Dec Sickening Report from WSJ
Spine Surgery Greed Already controversial, yet continually growing more common, instrumented spinal fusion surgery took a public relations hit in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal. “Top Spine Surgeons Reap Royalites, Medicare Bounty” is an excellent, if not disheartening piece of investigative health journalism. This piece
22Apr “At least my spine is aligned now…”
Comfortably Bad Medical Beliefs These were the words of a friend who had just been to see a chiropractor for her sore back. I had treated her back the day before and had asked how it felt. The response was, “Well, I went to see a chiropractor today and it’s still really sore, but at
