See the attachment for John, Julie, and Tim’s response to Dr Deyo’s concerns regarding their trial (Childs JD, Fritz JM, Flynn TW, Irrgang JJ, Johnson KK, Majkowski GR, et al. A clinical prediction rule to identify patients with low back pain most likely to benefit from spinal manipulation: a validation study. Ann Intern Med. 2004;141:920-8…
Will Our Referral Sources Assimilate Evidence to Support Physical Therapist Practice Before We Do?
I just got finished with a talk to a group of geriatricians at the American Geriatrics Society Meeting in Orlando, FL on the management of older adults with low back pain. I was on a panel Tom Rudy (psychologist) and Deb Weiner (geriatrician/rheumatologist) from the University of Pittsburgh. My role was to discuss the management of these patients from…
Marketing Physical Therapy
If you tell someone your a physician, my guess is that most people have a similar idea of what that persons background is and what he or she does.
If you tell someone your a physical therapist, I was shown once again a few weeks ago that all bets are off as to what is conjured up in that persons…
Heat continuous low-level heat wrap therapy (CLHT) for Acute Low Back Pain
It will be interesting to see the details of this study (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=24208). I am not sure how some of the math in the below quote from the press release is even possible. How do you reduce disability more than 100%???
"This is the first time we found that subjects who…
Breathing for back pain??? I thought this was something you did to stay alive???
I must admit being somewhat disappointed (dismayed and even embarrassed for our profession might be more accurate) by the following press release. Unfortunately, some of the UCSF faculty were apparently complicit in the Middendorf Breath Institute’s effort to study their Experience
of Breath technique. I am not suggesting that…
Medical Benchmarks
This is an interesting article published in the latest issue of CMAJ regarding medical benchmarks, clinically acceptable waiting times for both urgent and non-urgent procedures. The recommendations were set forth by 6 specialty councils with no reference to the data used to support their recommendations.
Download MedicalBenchMarks.pdf
Obviously time and expense drive health care costs and it…
RedNova News – Health – Systematic Review: Strategies for Using Exercise Therapy To Improve Outcomes in Chronic Low Back Pain
Link: RedNova News – Health – Systematic Review: Strategies for Using Exercise Therapy To Improve Outcomes in Chronic Low Back Pain.Systematic Review: Strategies for Using Exercise Therapy To Improve Outcomes in Chronic Low Back PainIt is great to see this type of article in a respected magazine. We need this type of press…
Upcoming Dates of Interest
Just a friendly reminder about a couple upcoming deadlines…The discussion in this group is so great – we need to make sure you are also submitting to present at CSM or Annual Conference!
CSM (Note – I just cut/pasted this informaiton from another e-mail…):
CSM 2006 will be held February 1-5, 2006 in San Diego, CA.
If you…
LBP Case Study in NEJM
Attached is a case study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine that provides a physican perspective for the evidence-based management of a patient with chronic LBP.
John
Download 1891.pdf…
EBM Presentations
The following website (www.cebm.net/downloads) was sent to me by Britt Smith. It has lots of downloadable files related to EBP from the leaders in the field.
John…