Research has LOST ITS WAY!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with Neving. Big business has come into the picture and is funding research projects to promote their products and services. If you look at any research paper today you can tear it to shreds because of the bias in the interpretation of data. Yes this includes the health care professions!!!!!! I hate to say it but we are as corrupt as the "peanuts lower cholesterol" (which was funded by planters nuts) study as we try to prove the new, innovative (puke), extremely complicated and expensive techniques that we have to learn to earn our CEUs actually work.

PS. If you don’t think health care is big business you are very very naive. What better way to make people to part with their money than to provide them with hope.

As for the nature of the healing process... If you take a piece of paper, rip and bring the edges closer together and then glue or tape the edges, you have a wrinkled piece of paper. This piece of paper will now behave differently. As with any injury, unless full range of movement is achieved almost immediately, the wrinkled paper effect will occur. This can be reversed with therapy and near full range can be achieved. So what we do will always impact our patient's health.

The body is absolutely DUMB when it comes to healing. It seems like the body is always responding to severe trauma and is unable to cope with minor trauma in a toned down way. Remember the body was design with CONSTANT MOTION in mind. The design and function of the hip flexors is a liability to the lumbar spine for those of us who sit as much as we stand (notice that I did not say move). Those two functions create HUGE stresses on the lumbar spine. If you doubt this view I encourage you to wall climb. The trick of climbing is CONSTANT MOTION. Never hang as the muscles in the forearm will be fatigued and cant be used for several minutes as it recovers from the stress (ie. lack of blood flow) of isometric contraction (which will lead to an impressive fall).

I am going to stop now before I go into a winded rant about biomechanics.

Adamo