What the
Hell? Another fade is going to ruin us
A word
of caution: I don’t care about Olympics- Well no one cares
for most of the sports in Olympics expect in the Olympic year. Just look at the
sports which involve horse- really those are sports and they are awarded medals
for it. But of course like all life’s ironies- I love watching it. So with that……
Every Olympic throws never stupidity- after last Olympic
games people who were selling stickers went gaga that some poorly educated
athlete was wearing a sticker- that lead to exponential increase in uneducated experts
and their followers here. After many trials which has found they are just a
sticker (my personal opinion –if you are a researcher and did a RCT in k-tape
you should be ashamed of our self) there is no let down of these been taught. If
you think the hours of training, the support staff who teach about diet, coping
etc- a sticker lead to better results- well that is stupid if you have studied
PT. However, I don’t have any qualms with the athletes. Most of them are duped
by trainers, PTs and other snake oil selling people. Sportsmen are inherently
superstitious- wearing the same right shoe always to wearing the same coloured underwear
is common- as the results are random.
So this time when a elite swimmer-gets moxibution before
starting – is going to lead more people to say – proud to be a PT with a cup,
come and learn the newer way – the cupping therapy as moxibution is –well too
complicated.
The first issue – we should not be proud- we can make a
elite athlete get better- we should be proud when we are part of the heath care
team- which prevented stroke or made a SCI injury patient finish college.
Second is just because many people are using it does not
make it right- it makes it popular. And what we have learned in the last 20
years anything which is popular with very little science falls flat on the
back. Examples- pilates, MET, NDT (the newer avatar, the older own had a strong
science, sadly it became outdated), K-tape and all the hands on treatment. Science
is not popularity contest- it is being meticulous and producing hard data. So before you go and give the idiot expert tea
boy (short for cupping therapy) – ask not who is using it- ask for where is the
science, where is the data. Be an informed therapist .
