June
Hello all The AAOMPT has been working diligently the last two years to update the Manual Therapy Description of Advanced Specialty Practice (DASP). This document in essence spells out what makes a good manual therapist. They put out a survey to help revalidate this document. The DASP will influence how OMPT education is taken care […]
Hello, in today’s blog post I want to talk about meniscus injuries. Some very compelling research has come out recently that surgery might not be as good of a treatment option as we thought it was. As a runner, leg injuries happen. A systematic review by van Gent et al. showed that the most common […]
This blog post will discuss a poorly understood entity- the stress fracture Stress fractures are a common entity encountered across all patient demographics. The first case description of bone stress injuries was in Prussian military recruits who presented with metatarsal pain from marching—the “march fracture.” The proper definition and pathophysiology of the stress fracture today […]
In this blog post I want to discuss a viewpoint article that was published in May, 2017 JOSPT entitled “Placebo Mechanisms of Manual Therapy: A Sheep in Wolf ‘s Clothing?” Click here for the article: http://www.jospt.org/doi/abs/10.2519/jospt.2017.0604 The article in essence implies that we do not really know what makes a manual therapy treatment efficacious. The […]