Evidence based practice seems to be the fashion nowadays. I want to play here the advocate of the devil and I am hoping to do a good job.
I will start with an example. Physiotherapy in general in low back pain or more specific manual therapy. In the UK the latest research on chiropractice and osteopathy showed no significant effect of the use of spinal manipulation. A simular research has been done in the Netherlands some 10 years ago with the same result (and here the knock on effect was that physiotherapy was down graded in healthcare provision less treatments payed for by insurances. In Norway a research came to the same conclusion.
How can we talk about evidence based practice if there is no support from research? I have only taken one example but as far as I know hardly anything is research well.

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