tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692328.post513271238199295199..comments2023-12-10T05:51:24.892-08:00Comments on HumanAntiGravitySuit: How I really feel about chiroDiane Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01356363026969420734noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692328.post-72331367727360104522009-01-21T07:12:00.000-08:002009-01-21T07:12:00.000-08:00Hello Anonymous,I don't think much about ortho PTs...Hello Anonymous,<BR/>I don't think much about ortho PTs who are certified in manipulative therapy. To become certified in manipulative therapy has never been an ambition I've shared. (I've never had ambitions to become "certified" in <I>anything</I> within the broad scope of practice I enjoy, really...)<BR/><BR/>I look at it this way: I'm trained and licensed to be a generic human primate social groomer. Most pain has nothing to do with needing a very coercive, expensive-to-attain, archaic to the point of being practically dinosauric, manual skill set. I treat pain, which does not require a large amount of carefully contrived force designed to produce some dramatic noise, ostensibly to satisfy some perceived "need" of a patient to feel they have been "treated." It requires some careful attention, steady kinesthetic contact, teaching a patient how to realign them<I>selves</I> with the requirements of their own nervous system, small but mighty (only 2% of body mass, responsible for 100% of all body function, and requiring 20% of available oxygen/energy to do its job), which spans the organism from skin cell to construct of self. <BR/><BR/>If PTs feel they must go learn how to pop things, fine, but never <I>my</I> neck, thank you very much, and hopefully never as anything more than mere adjunct to what we are already trained to accomplish <I>without</I> clever audible human primate social grooming tricks such as manipulative therapy. <BR/><BR/>DianeDiane Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01356363026969420734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692328.post-13105785362997771462009-01-21T06:46:00.000-08:002009-01-21T06:46:00.000-08:00Yet another great post!Question: what do you make ...Yet another great post!<BR/><BR/>Question: what do you make of ortho PTs who are certified in manipulative therapy? I know a few PTs who have a diploma in manual and manipulative medicine who *on occasion* use cervical manips when they feel it's necessary. That said they make it clear that it is counterproductive for this to be a regular feature of any treatment plan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com