If there has ever been a more simple way to describe the plight of the worst of worst PT, this post says it all.
Here, here to high quality PT in 2008 that elevates the PT profession, health care system, and the consumers we serve.
Happy New Year from EIM!
John
I have argued already that we must seek the basic science that helps to explain our clinical findings, rather than trying to force patients to fit our basic science. I find it encouraging that so many health professionals from such different backgrounds have reached so much common ground - and that it fits modern neurophysiology.
-Gordon Waddell, MD "The Back Pain Revolution", pg 153
"We are seeing a revolution growing out of the old orthopedic concept of the 'dynasty of the disc' into a more integrated biopsychosocial model of back pain."
-Alf Nachemson MD, 1998
I just had a conversation with a newly-trained McKenzie practitioner this week. He told me all about lateral and posterolateral componenets of disc pathology responsible for peripheral pain and the mechanical diagnostic process. It makes me wonder, where's the revolution? Any comments?
To piggyback Larry's last post, here's the famous quote that lead to term "Pyrrhic Victory":
"Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone."
- Pyrrhus, Greek Military Commander
Just insert "CMS" for "The Romans" and you're all set...
On the discussions of the DPT designator and grandfathering:
"The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it."
-William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823
“All things being equal the one with the best attitude wins, all things not being equal the one with the best attitude still has a chance to win.”
– Laurence (Larry) N. Benz
"Too often people helplessly shrug their shoulders in the midst of adverse circumstances, saying, "It must be God's will..." Not so the courageous leader who understands God's will and who understands that many things in our present experience STANDS IN OPPOSITION TO GOD'S WILL. Therefore, the courageous leader prepares himself or herself as if for BATTLE, knowing that the outcome IS NOT FIXED, that CHANGE IS POSSIBLE, that hindrances CAN BE OVERCOME, that REALITY CAN BE TRANSFORMED - but only as obstacles are overcome. This is where courage must be exercised!"
- Teddy Roosevelt
“Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
-Thomas Jefferson
“Assessment and understanding are assisted by asking questions based on believing that the body can inform the patient about aspects of his disorder that cannot be found on examination.”
G.D. Maitland
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Eldridge Cleaver
