[gforge]

I could not agree more. Our bodies have had millions of years of handling disease without drugs, we should tap into that resource. The problem I face daily is that many patients come to me and say they don't have the time for physiotherapy and want surgery. They often add that their neighbor had great experience with surgery for the exact same illness. It's actually amazing how illnesses cluster...

It is hard to convince people of taking the slow route. This is a similar to convincing people to write unit tests for their code, we understand that it is the right thing to do but we always have a deadline. Some threads here report that they started with physiotherapy after years of other solutions, I would love to know how to change years into months.

[edison85]

I feel like most chronic issues have to be viewed systematically. Often an injury or imbalance in one area over time causes dysfunction in another and although we have physiatrists, they jus don't have enough time to look at the body as a whole and PTs have the time but many just go through the motions.

For chronic pain, I've given the book Trigger Point Workbook by Davies which makes Travell and Simon's trigger point research easily understood by the layman tona few people and many have improved over time. I've seen carpel tunnel, back pain, scoliosis, SI dysfunction, TMJ all improve