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Nocebic Narratives of the SIJ - with Dr Thorvaldur Palsson

The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

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Is There a Movement Based Model for the Sick Unit Joint?

The sacred unit joint is this kind of complex mysterious joint that moves in a gazillion ways with really a tiny kind of movement you've got to have these amazing skills to palpate and and effect. We're trying to sort of first determine what's normal and what's not normal in a range which is maybe let's say a rotation of two to four degrees and then trying to identify clinically how much it deviates from that it's just it's pure guessingYeah so we're sort of it's disservice to ourselves I think as clinicians because then we're we're planting this seed of insecurity in our minds when we're telling ourselves and our colleagues that we should be able to detect this

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