That is unpublished and apparently unpublishable.
The person who measured the Cobb angles was one of them apparently. If that person had been independent along with the radiographer, the results would probably be different. There is a big source of error in these measurements. Recall that Martha Hawes had three independent guys measure her curve and the measurements were wildly different.
The biggest problem with the data is the "so what?" factor. At this point it is not unusual for any PT treatment to get improvements in a few weeks. The problem is maintaining it and how much exercise you have to do the rest of your life and sticking with it and hoping not to get hospitalized or something. It's all PT dependent.
These PT treatment papers should not be published with only a few weeks of data. They should have a lower limit of 2-5 years out before publishing. Surgical papers often publish at 2 years but with fusions, the increases in the curves are known to be minimal much further out than that. In PT we rarely if ever see long term papers for a reason. None of it holds after a few weeks-months and probably many people stop exercising either voluntarily or involuntarily.
The person who measured the Cobb angles was one of them apparently. If that person had been independent along with the radiographer, the results would probably be different. There is a big source of error in these measurements. Recall that Martha Hawes had three independent guys measure her curve and the measurements were wildly different.
The biggest problem with the data is the "so what?" factor. At this point it is not unusual for any PT treatment to get improvements in a few weeks. The problem is maintaining it and how much exercise you have to do the rest of your life and sticking with it and hoping not to get hospitalized or something. It's all PT dependent.
These PT treatment papers should not be published with only a few weeks of data. They should have a lower limit of 2-5 years out before publishing. Surgical papers often publish at 2 years but with fusions, the increases in the curves are known to be minimal much further out than that. In PT we rarely if ever see long term papers for a reason. None of it holds after a few weeks-months and probably many people stop exercising either voluntarily or involuntarily.
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