I’m speaking purely for myself here, but I feel that physiotherapy doesn’t really need any more quantitative research on hamstring stretching. I think we’ve seen enough evidence that pain is aversive, and that putting scores on complex conditions critically misrepresents the condition, the person’s lived experience, and the benefits of physiotherapy. Where I feel we could definitely do with more research - particularly these days, where we are increasingly looking for ideas about how physiotherapy might need to change in the future - is research about our past. Not just accounts of past events, although even some of this would be nice, but historical works that connect to messages … [Read more...] about New: Histories