Disc compression on left S1 nerve root

[elinwee]

Thanks to MONKEY for clarification. I didnt mean to jump down your throat and apologise if I did or seem to come across. I do have an issue with how the term "evidence based practice" is used and how its being applied to real-life practice/ clients.

I am a much lesser experienced practitioner than you are and certainly far far less read then you!!! Thanks for the useful references - I will certainly look them up. I have always been a more "touchy-feely" therapist than one to look at strict theories and rationales, but I had a mentor who showed me how impt it was to combine good manual skills with strong theoretical basis, and practically forced me to also strenghten my theoretical base, and made me a heap better therapist. So I always appreciate being reminded re the academic side of things too.

When I started to utilise Clinical Pilates as part of my skill repertoire, I started to learn not to fear pain in the rehab process of exercising as I now had so much a bigger exercise base to work from with people who are highly sensitised to pain behaviour from prev injuries/ experiences so I fully agree that rarely ongoing damage/ injury is the real reason for a person's experienced pain and functional restriction.

Thanks for taking the trouble to clarify your stand. Anyway, this thread seems to have veered off its original track and the original poster havent seem to have had another look in! Hopefully he has got the help that he was looking for.

Cheers.

[chak]

Hi - sorry its been a little while but got caught up in all the paperwork involved in leaving the froces

Been reading through all the replies and cant thank you all enough for responding and giving me more of an insight into it all.

dont have time to write a proper reply to you all at the moment because im just on a quicky break and have to fall in again shortly but will be back on asap.

[physio.smith]

Good luck with whatever it is that you end up doing.
Always people on here that can give you advice in the future should you need it.