Statistics speak for themselves. Any reasonable, rational, intelligent person can read and evaluate a well done study with statistics and supportive evidence.
I just asked, since you disagree with Dr. Coillard's recommendations, if you were also published. In other words, what are your qualifications that I would take your recommendation over hers!
People may "feel and see the difference" but there are objective parameters that should be measured and documented to support any therapy. Where are your documented, published objective parameters that support your recommendations?
Cont..Especially if you are going to give advice that goes against the advice of a child's physician, and it appears by the physicians response that they feel that treatment may be harmful. I think you feel comfortable giving Dr. Coillard's and Rivard's patients your recommendations, which are contradictory to theirs, because there is no professionaly liability on this forum. No one can pursue litigation for your advice here, I suppose.
Professional liability, and more importantly my patients' health, is precisely why I work with their Doctors, not seperate from. It is also why I will often refer them to a surgical specialists when I see something of concern prior to treatment. I recently did just that for an 80 year old woman with a lumbar scoliosis never treated because her doctors never detected it until late into adulthood... (primarily because many Doctors hardly touch their patients or thoroughly examine them because they're too busy looking at their 'files' and various other paper/lab work.) This woman had been treated by a chiro with adjustments and a lift... very inappropriate given what was happening with her spine. I examined her x-rays and suggested getting more recent ones and taking them to a specialist. She did and the Doctor didn't even examine her body, just looked at the x-rays, said she shouldn't have surgery (obviously at her age) and that she should get drugs for the pain and do Pilates!!!! He felt she should leave her spinal health up to a Pilates instrucor with 30 - 40 hours of anatomy training... You've got to be kidding me! Meanwhile, he agreed with everything else I suggested to her and our work is the onlly thing that is making a significant and lasting difference (granted we are primarily concerned with pain issues and mobility and functional biomechanics of her hips, pelvis etc. ... her spine is not going to change at this late point in time.) So maybe you can see why I always question everything and everyone, including the relevance of my own work with every person... whether they have a PhD in biomechanics or not. A surgeon works their own set of tools to apply that knowledge, I work with a different set of tools to apply that knowledge.... Everything looks like a nail if all you've got is a hammer... The Doctors are doing what they can within their domain, I can respect that but won't limit myself and my patients to one single opinion or perspective... including my own.
But as you are not an orthopedic surgeon, nor a pediatrician, nor have you done a PhD in the biomechanics of the spine and are not published anywhere, I think I'll take Dr. Coillard's advice, thank
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