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Dr Greg Whyte PhD, BSc (Hons) Editorial

APR 2014

Manual therapy is making a big time comeback it would seem. Physios out

there, have we timed this badly? I was the last year to go through the old physiotherapy Diploma qualification at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge (pah yes a diploma I know, the BSc was still very new at the time, for those of you reading this and wondering what I’m banging on about!). We spent many happy (?) hours, particularly in our first year, running around in blue gym knickers, practicing our manual therapy techniques (stop it there!). Since then I’ve employed two student physios at sportEX who look at me as if I’ve dropped off another planet when I mention how much hands on work we did while we were training. Despite still thinking I’m 25 while logically knowing I”m the other side of 40+, my training days weren’t really that long ago were they?

And yet look at what we’re now discovering about the anatomical structure of the body that we thought we knew everything about, and even more significantly just how interconnected our fascial network is. Did we just give away the goose that lays the golder eggs? For all those of you who have been brave enough to commit to manual therapy as a profession, I suspect you have chosen very wisely. In this case the future looks bright even if it is more pearly white than orange.. Yes, I know the evidence base for massage (or apparent lack of, for so long) has had a major impact on the development of a profession for which this is a guiding philosophy but if we have learnt anything from the evidence presented in the Horizon programme, The Power of the Placebo, screened in the UK in February, just because the evidence appears to be very hard, almost impossible sometimes, to find, it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

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