Evolution Comes Slowly...

[Jason Silvernail]

http://blog.evidenceinmotion.com/evidence/2006/03/jargon_and_manu.html

This is from Evidence in Motion. Some prominent PT researchers and manual therapists in the US are actively struggling with the jargon of manual therapy, esp it's biomechanical terms and approach.

Change comes slowly, but it seems to be happening...

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[EricM]

Jason,
Thank-you for bringing this discussion here. Your reply there was spot-on.

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[Barrett Dorko]

Jason,

I certainly agree with Eric about your reply.

I don't know who said this but it got burned into my brain a while ago: Theories are either right or wrong. Models have the option of being right but irrelevant.

Simply put, some over on EIM lack construct validity for much of their theory of manipulative care, and their model, while not inaccurate, is irrelevant.

If I'm off base please tell me how.

[nari]

Jason

I agree, your response was very appropriate.
And I think there are signs that they are starting to look at the tangle of undergrowth created by researchers clinging to the biomechanical model.

That model is grand in perspective and language, but, I agree also, it is irrelevant to modern practice...or should be.

Occam's chainsaw needed, perhaps?


Nari

[Diane]

Way to go Jason!

Rather than being a physical construct that can be measured biomechanically the body is more of an ecosystem, in my opinion; it should be considered as such, evaluated as a web of relational, interdependent systems that move through time together, unfold rapidly, slow, reach stability, then mature. Of course, that would mean PT would have to move far away from the chiro type way of thinking, include the osteo way, but move past that, into ecosystems/weather/nature models. The medical model is a reductionist world all unto itself.