There's been a recurring theme in many of my blogposts this year, and a Facebook post by Adam Meakins on Wednesday summed it up beautifully. In the post (here), Adam was responding to an earlier post by Brent Brookbush promoting a new educational video of a muscle tissue release technique, to which Adam made this comment; The continued illusion or delusion of therapists thinking they can find 'nodules' 'trigger points' 'knots' 'taut bands' 'scar tissue' ''gristly bits' 'snotty shit' 'gammy areas' still astounds me in 2016... these are just soft tissue sore spots of an unknown origin... Meakins (2015) http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/6/348.full.pdf The issue that I've been grappling with … [Read more...] about Sore spots
Pictures of Cyriax, Stoddard, Kaltenborn & Evjenth at IFOMPT meeting in Gran Canaria, 1973
Here are some more picture from the first meeting of IFOMPT in Gran Canaria 1973. You'll see such luminaries as James Cyriax, Alan Stoddard, Freddy Kaltenborn and Olaf Evjenth here. It still seems remarkable to me that such an amazing group of therapists and doctors could travel from all over the world to spend a month in the Canary Islands doing this. Wouldn't it be lovely to do something like this again. Imagine what could be achieved! … [Read more...] about Pictures of Cyriax, Stoddard, Kaltenborn & Evjenth at IFOMPT meeting in Gran Canaria, 1973
Early IFOMPT
Last week saw the 2016 International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) conference in Glasgow and watching some of the social media feed from the conference I was reminded how far the organization has come since its inception in the early 1970s, and yet at the same time, how much has stayed the same. I have quite a long history with IFOMPT. 10 years ago I began a centenary history project with the New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists which culminated in the Society's fabulous virtual archive (link). As part of the project I got to interview about 50 of New Zealand's most prominent physiotherapists. This included interviewing the men and women who had … [Read more...] about Early IFOMPT