This blog was written by Jenn Sharman RMT. Jenn is the owner of Intent Health Clinic in Vancouver, BC. She is a passionate advocate of evidence based practices. I am sharing it to you with her permission. “I was in a car accident last year and my Doctor recommended Registered Massage Therapy. I felt anxious about going for a massage but I…
This article was inspired by a paper written by Joel Bialosky et al in 2017. It is titled: Unravelling the mechanisms of MT: Modelling an Approach. A PDF of this article can be found for free online here. The definition of mechanism: “a system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery” When one thinks of the human body and…
Disclaimer. This blog is not disputing your clinical outcomes! I need to emphasize that your specific clinical outcomes are not being disputed here. What I want to focus on is the reasoning. When treating the psoas, positive clinical outcomes are likely for very different reasons than “releasing” the psoas. Why spend time blogging about the psoas? My initial purpose…
The words you use matter. Being an evidence informed therapist is to be less wrong as much as possible. Everyone is going to make mistakes and that is expected. However, minimising the negative impact of mistakes should be the clinicians number one priority. The easiest way to do this is to adopt changes to the language used when communicating with…
This is a guest post by my colleague Chrystal Ladouceur RMT. She discusses some very important concepts for RMTs and manual therapists. In order to become an evidence based profession we need to challenge unhelpful and unsupported ideas. Challenging these ideas does not mean your techniques or interventions are useless. Please read her article below for further insight. You still matter…
The chances are you will have experienced an episode of low back pain at least once in your life. You’ve probably experienced it many times. Low back pain is one of the most normal things a human can experience. It’s estimated in some studies that over 80% of people will get an episode of back pain at least once every…
