Category Archives: Articles
Understanding cluster testing to improve diagnostic accuracy: Part 2
In my last post, I discussed how using a cluster of signs and symptoms can significantly improve our diagnostic accuracy for differentiating issues in the neck and upper extremity. Moving down the kinetic chain, there are other regions of the … Continue reading
Understanding cluster testing to improve diagnostic accuracy: Part 1
In the US, physical therapists are gaining increased autonomy by becoming direct access providers for medical care (by diagnosing and treating musculoskeletal conditions without a medical referral). A recently published large, retrospective study assessed the effectiveness of this system and … Continue reading
sportEX dynamics – April 2012 – issue 32
Articles in this issue: Don’t forget the iPad/iPhone app is now out – just search the Apple app store for sportEX: Kinesiology Tape: The Low Down by physiotherapist Paul Coker – Kinesiology taping, first invented in the 1970s, has seen … Continue reading
What’s in a name?
What’s in a name? In the UK as soft tissue therapists we have a confusing array of ‘titles’ attempting to explain who we are and what we do. We have been going through a similar identity crisis to our counterparts … Continue reading
Psychological Education May Be More Effective than Core Stabilization in Prevention of Low Back Pain
One of the most common reasons individuals seek outpatient Physical Therapy services is due to low back pain (LBP). Literature indicates the LBP affects 60-90% of the population with reoccurrence rates documented as high as 90%. The condition is often … Continue reading
My knee hurts…because it is raining
Has your back, neck or knee ever “told” you that the weather was going to change? Chances are, yes. Or at least so you thought. For thousands of years, there has been a widespread and strongly held belief that pain … Continue reading
Massage research
Recent abstracts These four recent abstracts were highlighted recently by the Soft Tissue Therapists’ group in Australia – click the links for more info. Each study is in a markedly different field but all have positive ramifications for our profession, … Continue reading
The Utilization (or overutilization) of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Diagnosis and Treatment of LBP
As medical professionals who treat painful conditions, one of our goals is figure out why our patients are in pain. In the United States, one of the ways in which we attempt to find the root cause is Magnetic Resonance … Continue reading
Latent myofascial trigger points and their effect on muscle activity by Paula Clayton, MSMA
There have been some cracking articles published in the last few months which are putting us firmly on the map when it comes to those questions, ‘yes, what you do is great … but where is the evidence?’ Latent Myofascial … Continue reading
50% discount to UKSEM conference – 23-26th Nov 2011
Special Offer to anyone reading this email: Get a 50% discount on the full conference now using code memberoffer11 to book. Just £300 for four full days (£150 per day rate available) at www.uksem.org ASICS UKSEM 2011 at ExCel, London … Continue reading
