These are
course we think intelligent therapist should shun, So we are starting with the
current fad- dry needling
Dry needling- well because it is reinventing
the wheel. A group of intelligent people thought- how can we sell our crap? We
they were lazy and so they just rehashed some already available assumption with
poor science- ie- trigger point and mashed it acupuncture. In acupuncture they
have this idea called- ashi point, if I can remember correctly, which are
tender points or as they renamed it trigger points with some modifications.
In the last decade they have done thousands studies on acupuncture and it has been found it works only in china when done on Chinese people. So these intelligent people took the lessons from a marketing guru and did what any good execute will do- rebrand it. So as a first step like Airtel called there 3g as 4g they called acupuncture which has lost some credibility among proper medical professionals- they called it dry needling. ( for PT who want to learn wet needling you need to contact Gowdhama Kumaran )
In the last decade they have done thousands studies on acupuncture and it has been found it works only in china when done on Chinese people. So these intelligent people took the lessons from a marketing guru and did what any good execute will do- rebrand it. So as a first step like Airtel called there 3g as 4g they called acupuncture which has lost some credibility among proper medical professionals- they called it dry needling. ( for PT who want to learn wet needling you need to contact Gowdhama Kumaran )
Major problems in this area-
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No research evidence- that is natural. I know
people who teach this will say it is evidence base- don’t worry they have not
know clue what is evidence is like most of our us- making it easy to fool us.
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no physiological sense- Trigger point is not science as people are
made to believe (you can do your own research to learn about it, but start with
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1404132
done by the people who wrote this )
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also remember the map they show for trigger
point- pulled out of there ass rather than from any study
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latent trigger point- well, you want to believe
this kind of shit no amount of evidence to the contrary is going to shake your
faith
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Remember we have good evidence for multifactoral
pain management in chronic low back pain- hence you have to prove it is
good than that rather than doing nothing.
Next time i hear someone says i am a expert in this crap i am going to give them an award for being the best therapist in the whole word with my own money
