Does anyone have experience with osteopats, etc and their poor understanding of human movement or benefits of exercise.
I was arguing with one the other day about possible cause of a clients disc bulge. She seems to see no link with hip mobility and lumbar disc bulge. She also seem to believe no exercises would speed up her recovery and she should avoid any work on the area. Just work above and below, she told me.
I was surprised she saw such little connection to the rest of the body. I recommended my client get a second and maybe third opinion.
Did you try to explain that hypomobility in the hips will be compensated for by excessive lumbar flexion/extension/rotation, leading to excessive FSU motion, with increased stress on the IVD and facet joints and lack of intersegmental stiffness?
Their are people like that in every profession. I have been to my fair share of physiotherapists and chiropractors. One chiro thought he only needed to crack someone and they’d be fine, so he didn’t understand why I’d keep having to go back.
A physio who was using 20 year old methods and another who told me to roll my lower back seven ways from Sunday along with the lack of muscle mass so I was just grinding bones.
I met a physio who thought he was a chiropractor and only wanted to adjust people but believed in the kinetic chain but that it all centered around the thoracic spine even knee pain. He said he doesn’t treat everyone the same but he did treat everyone the same.
He didn’t believe in any muscle strengthening just stretching the chest seven way, rolling the lower, stretching the lats in sacrifice of the lower back and never having to stretch the legs… Whenever I told him it still hurt like shit he told me to keep doing it cause this is what he does daily himself and it works for him but sometimes his back’ll be in a lot of pain himself… He was a joke.
The only person who’s reasonable is my current chiropractor who I see only once in a while when I have a question about something or really need to get fixed fast. Hes on the same page as me with glute activation, lower traps, serratus anterior, hip mobility, stabilizing the lower back and soft tissue quality but hes just not trained or very good with exercise prescription.
He has his own methods but for the most part hes really open minded not like the other professionals I’ve seen that refuse to accept or even acknowledge other methods of treatment despite their ways not produce results.
While some bulges might be caused by hip mobility another one can be caused by a traumatic accident and so forth. As well as not every medical condition can be resolved by working it out.
As the person above listed 3 different methods for fixing his problem that didn’t work, I am sure one of those methods worked for one person out there. Thats the benefit of 2 and 3 opinions.
I kind of feel sorry for people in the medical field because they are expected to know EVERYTHING and the body is just not that simple. Then I think about the fact that they charge me 100 dollars to sit in the waiting room for 30 minutes then 75 to look at me and tell me I’m ok.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
While some bulges might be caused by hip mobility another one can be caused by a traumatic accident and so forth. As well as not every medical condition can be resolved by working it out.
As the person above listed 3 different methods for fixing his problem that didn’t work, I am sure one of those methods worked for one person out there. Thats the benefit of 2 and 3 opinions.
I kind of feel sorry for people in the medical field because they are expected to know EVERYTHING and the body is just not that simple. Then I think about the fact that they charge me 100 dollars to sit in the waiting room for 30 minutes then 75 to look at me and tell me I’m ok.[/quote]
what the hell kind of health care plan are you on?
I realise that every back condition was different, but in asking about hip mobility (particullary if one hip is tigher that the other) and the possibility that it had some roll in the injury she just looked at me like a confused puppy.
I saw a physio/chiro/chek practitioner/ART provider in sydney once. He knew what he was on about…but im in Melbourne so no good.