Thanks alophysio,

The classic example is my mother. She has been seeing her chiro regularly for about 35 years. She still has the same issues and my sister is in the same boat. I always say well he didn't fix your problem did he. After 35 yrs!!!

Now the flip side is the personality of my mother. When she gets a migraine she goies to the chiro, he manips her and her headache goes away. A great result actually. And she is happy to do that and be the passive patient and just keep paying for it.

I think in many ways the clients that see chiro's get what they want from treatment. Perhaps those that see physio's want a different treatment plan, one where they are more active participants.

Of course I am generalising but I would never send my mother to a physio as she just wouldn't be interested. I am a little old school in my training on all of this and I don't manipulate the cervical spine at all so perhaps those physio's who regularly do this would feel also they have the 'quick fix' skill and also the longterm fix skills.

Pandora's box?