Warm body with a license

[caro]

Butler summed it up very well here. queue to 14:25.

[caro]

What we do, us manual therapists, what we have such a hard time arguing for, sometimes produces an Absence.

Absence of pain. Something that is as easy to describe as a sound or a taste. The people we treat arrive inhabiting that space and sometimes they climb off the table and there it is; the Absence.

How can that ever be described as non-specific.

Respirer Dans L'eau, Daniel Bélanger

Le temps est blanc
Le jour fléchit
Belle et douce nuit

La lune est bleue
Je m'assoupis
Je pars le coeur dans l'étui
Voilà que je respire dans l'eau
Je vole même sans plumeau
Je suis enfin moi, enfin moi

Et puis le jour fait ce qu'il fait
Défait le dormeur satisfait
Il chasse tous les corps célestes
Tout y passe bien peu qu'il reste
Il reste moi qui volais
Qui respirais dans l'eau
Moi qui étais moi, étais moi

Moi qui souris
Qui marche enfin
La tête hors des épaules
Libre dans un corps
Moi qui jaillis
Des souterrains
De cent siècles de taule
Libre à mourir de rire

Il reste moi qui volais
Qui respirais dans l'eau

Moi qui souris
Qui marche enfin
La tête hors des épaules
Libre dans un corps
Moi qui jaillis
Des souterrains
De cent siècles de taule
Libre à mourir de rire
De rire

Breathe In Water, Daniel Bélanger

Sky is white
The day bows to the night
Beautiful and sweet night

The moon is blue
I doze off
Leaving my heart in its holster
Here I am, breathing in water
Flying without my wings
Free to be me. Finally.

And then the day does what it does
Defeats the satisfied sleeper
Chasing all heavenly bodies
Everything goes, little remains
I remain, I who was flying
Who could breathe in water
I who was me, I, who was

I who is smiling
Who is walking, finally
Head above the shoulders
Free in a body
I, who sprung from
underground
From centuries of emprisonment
Free to die laughing out loud

[Electerik]

The end result, as a subjective experience of the patient, will most likely be very specific. It's goal oriented. They'll either still have pain, less pain or no pain.

The process needed to get them there is non-specific. More often than not.

[caro]

I have to think about that a bit.

[vancouverRMT]

Yesterday, prof Moseley called the word placebo "daft"
He said it was "not anything but 'stuff' we don't have empirical data for yet".