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The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson cover image

Nocebic Narratives of the SIJ - with Dr Thorvaldur Palsson

The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

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Is Manual Therapy a Non-Specific Approach?

I've actually been involved in setting up a two-year master's program at Albrecht University in Muscles Kintle physiotherapy and there we it was a very conscious decision to include modules focusing on manual therapy skills. We can't really reliably identify small movements in the spine or wherever but there are still some very useful parts of applying and using such assessment techniques which relate then to how touching and moving passively can directly be input into the how the sensitivity of the nervous system is. A human touch has is extremely powerful so and being able to do something that is as specific as possible gives us a sense of sort of if we won't put the hands on our our patients, says Dr

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