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Treatment Success Depends on Patient Expectations

   9 minute read   “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” – Henry David Thoreau   Have you ever changed...

You Must Tame the Advice Monster

   8 minute read   “I know I am ready to give feedback when I’m ready to listen, ask questions, and accept that I may not fully understand the issue” – Brené Brown   You will be hard pressed to...

Are Our Patients Learning Anything?

Read Time: 8 minutes “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” -Will Durant   Think back to the material you covered in PT School. Let’s go specifically to a class we all...

Our Clinical Mind is Lazy

12 minute read   “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” – Richard Feynman   If we are to progress as a profession, we must hold each other accountable. If we are to provide our patients the best...

Simplifying and Complicating Motor Control Treatment

Read Time: 10-12 min Believe whatever you believe by day, but at night, argue against the propositions you hold most dear” – How not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg   Last week we covered...

How Do You Improve Motor Control?

Read Time: 9-11 minutes “The test of first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald   I know what you...

How Important is Motor Control?

    “To believe something is to believe that it is true; therefore a reasonable person believes each of his beliefs to be true; yet experience has taught him to expect that some of this beliefs, he knows not which,...

Stop Reading the Discussion

Read Time: 20 minutes “You have to evaluate each hypothesis in the light of the evidence of what you already know about it.” – R.A Fisher   Depending on the source, anywhere from 39-90% of acute low back pain cases...

Stop Reading the Abstract

Read Time: 11 minutes “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts” – John Wooden   Dissecting research can be laborious, frustrating, and confusing. It is extremely tempting to review the abstract, file key takeaways, and move...