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On Mastery
By: Seth Peterson, PT, DPT, OCS, FAAOMPT “I don’t know how they can sleep at night.” I was getting chewed out in a hallway in my first year of residency training. My mentor was speaking in general terms, but it was painfully clear that “they” meant me. I had just seen an 11-year-old girl with […]
An Exercise in Interpreting Clinical Results
By: Chad E Cook PT, PhD, FAPTA Randomized Controlled Trials In clinical research, treatment efficacy (the extent to which a specific intervention, such as a drug or therapy, produces a beneficial result under ideal conditions) and effectiveness (the degree to which an intervention achieves its intended outcomes in real-world settings) are studied using randomized controlled […]
Disentangling the Truth about Manual Therapy
By: Chad E Cook PT, PhD, FAPTA The “Facts” Please Perhaps you’ve heard the following “facts”? The Great Wall of China is visible from space. If you touch a baby bird that is in its nest, the mother will abandon it. If you flush a toilet in the Southern Hemisphere, water rotates in the opposite […]
Manual Therapy: Manipulation of the Brain?
By: Tara Winters PT, DPT When a person walks into the clinic with low back pain with primary nociplastic pain mechanisms, I’m armed and ready with a number of treatment ideas. This is thanks to the leaps and bounds made in the last 20 to 30 years in the world of pain science. “Let’s see […]
