Surgery or Physiotherapy

At last I got whatsapp in my phone.  As I have dreaded it is just a headache- people just dump all sorts of things and it just comes and sits on my phone.  One of the junk which reached my phone is a news report on a scientific study which compared surgery vs PT.

It is good news that PT is as effective as surgery and when we look in the health economics of it, this is wonderful news. I am not going into the methodological issues of the research or most of the sharing was the news item rather than the original study (not even a supplement attachment), but rather a different issue all together.

For many years the evidence is saying- manual therapy is as good as an exercise program in most of the conditions, NDT is not superior to anything you do for cerebral palsy or it is just useless in many conditions “the international expert” claims it to be.  But when we point this out and tell our fellow PTs – sulukuedupathu- (the original terminology for myofacial release) or 5- 20 thousand Rs manual therapy course or the original pirates- NDT which cost you anywhere around 3- 5lakhs is as good as a simple good exercise program which you can learn for free, PTs just go berserk.

Sadly, we are doomed to be a profession with pseudoscience, cheating, following any idiot as expert (and learning and being certified in his crap) is not going to go as long as we have suckers who will join these courses for so much of money.
where is whatsapp sharing about these info…. 

“It takes two to lie: one to lie and one to listen”