Scroll of Truth

I don't know who made this cartoon but whoever it is, THANK YOU!

So true. So very true.
Haha at all the spinal HVLA manipulators out there. 

The majority of patients having manual therapy for back or neck pain report adverse events. 

Meanwhile, this might be what manual therapy is REALLY all about..
The interoceptive turn. "The science of how we sense ourselves from within, including our bodily states, is creating a radical picture of selfhood."

Is it ever.

This new paper, just out, proposes that the effects of massage on depression may be all about helping this inner sense of self to change. I would argue this is not limited to only massage but pertains to all slow, kind, interactive, intelligent manual therapy. 

Michael Eggart, Silvia Queri,  Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen, 2019, Are the antidepressive effects of massage therapy mediated by restoration of impaired interoceptive functioning? A novel hypothetical mechanism. Medical Hypotheses Volume 128, July 2019, Pages 28-32

I wrote this a few days ago: Attention, people with pain: Check out PainChats, by Lissanthea Taylor
Furthermore, "People need to feel HEARD, not HURT" (Lissanthea Taylor).

And, What lurks at the bottom of the chasm?
And, finally,  Testa M and Rossettini G, 2016, Enhance placebo, avoid nocebo: How contextual factors affect physiotherapy outcomes. Manual Therapy 24 (2016) 65-74