Dear Alophysio:

I find it quite amusing at the strength of your passion to defend something. It is like Lady macbeth of which was said " Me think the lady doth protest too much!"

If you are so sure of your test methods and results, please calm down. I would surely not want to be responsible for you having a heart attack.

If you wish to continue to attack the APAS test by all means do so. I have no problem with you doing so.

It is of interest that I have had the most vicious attacks from AUstralia. I am not sure why? You say I am arrogant. Is that so - for questioning something that has not defined itself better? Really?

How much "form closure" have you found in reality? 10%? 20% 30% 40% 50%? or just how much in real time - in clinic? I can say that I have found no true form closure problems, even in patients over 70 years of age. Our brain has tremendous power that has been under rated. It can tune itself to many different structures. Our ears are as individual as our fingerprints, yet the brains still hears regardless of how the outer ear channels the sound into the inner ear. Do we think that the difference of form from one person to the next really matters that much? The Nazis had the idea that there was one ideal for everything. I do not share that view. Our brain can tune to a large or small Wikipedia reference-linkSIJ; a may facetted one or a less facetted one; one with many ripples or few ripples. It will accomodate the SIJ as it finds it.

As for neurological, how often do you find it? 1%? 2% 3% 5%?
I would say from my experience that it is rare at best and marked by cerebral palsy, MS, polio or similar unless you include entrapped nerves or compressed nerves in this catagory.

I find mostly neuromusclar control problems. By this i mean guarding responses or protective spasm or adaptive shortening or whatever designation you wish to call it. Force closure in the sense of muscle "weakness" i rarely find as there is more inhibition than weakness.

As for emotional, most patients are distraught over their pain that no one has addressed than as a cause. It is more an effect of no relief than a cause of the problem.

Again sorry for your being distraught.

Don't take it so personal.

Best regards,

Neuromuscular