Originally posted by Pooka1
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Nope, I never consider those things!
Actually, I have an education in rehabilitaion science with 9 years of clinical practice, and have taken dozens of courses on manual and myofascial therapy, therapeutic exercise, interdisciplinary management, clinical skills development, and evidence based practice. I attended a achool with a self-directed learning philosophy and have spent many hours as a student and clinician scouring Medline and related databases.
I have learned to combine the best available evidence with what is known from the basic sciences and my own and others' clinical experience, and refer to other disciplines when I am unable to help. That is called evidence based practice.
Because you are not a health care provider (that I know anyway) it is likely that your point of view is informed only by one factor, which is the literature. The research is an immensely important part of the picture, obviously, but it is incomplete in 2009 and often flawed, with need for further study in many areas. The research needs to be combined in the real world with all the other factors to provide care to real individuals that need help now.
I am in no way casually dismissing facts. However I often feel from your style of writing that you casually dismiss people who use a therapautic exercise approach to manage their scoliosis pain and deformity.
If you would read my post again, you will see that it does not try to argue that the woman's curves are permenantly reduced. I try to be very careful with the language I use, as you are correct in your belief that many people "lay people, I'll call them", do in fact misinterpret some of what they read, and draw erroneous conclusions.
Regarding my phrase of "physical laziness" - many poeple with chronic pain (myself included) have at one time or another put off doing their exercises using the following excuses:
"I'm too tired"
"I'm too depressed to bother"
"I don't know where to even start, my situation is so bad"
"I'll do an extra good job tomorrow"
I have used all of these myslf, even nowadays, when my pain is well managed and my deformity reduced (as long as I do my 2-3 hours per week of corrective excercises). Part of my job is to help people overcome these barriers to success.
Also, if you read again how I define my personal phrase of physical laziness, you will see that it does not include people who are physically unable to exercise, a catergory that most hospitalized patients (unless they are at a rehab hospital) fall into.
If there is anyone else out there that has read my 40-odd posts and agrees with your assessment that I am one of the people who is "lightheartedly unconcerned" about facts (I had to look that one up, do you carry a thesaurus with you or what?), then please let me know that I have done a poor job communicating.
Unrelated to scoliosis, I want to add that you have posted on more than one occasion that religious comments should not be used anymore. You were obviously angry when you wrote that last bit, but perhaps you could use non-R-words next time to express yourself? Maybe take a prominant athiest's name in vain instead?
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