Hi neuromuscular,

Interesting that you have a bias to neuromuscular diagnosis as evidenced by your login...

Anyway, i do not take this personally, just upset that you are so frustratingly stubborn - that is all...

As for protesting too much, i have to speak strongly to convey ideas to you... you do not take on ideas contrary to your own very well. Your statements demonstrate that you do not understand the model which you attack.

Ask yourself honestly..."how many people maintain contact with me on this topic?" - in fact, i think questioning people's work is one thing but disrespecting them is unprofessional.

So my anger and upset is based on what i believe your arrogance is - arrogance is defined as "an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions" - that is you neuromuscular!

You believe your way is superior. I have tried to reason with you. But in the end, you don't really listen too much.

Your way will lead to professional loneliness...

As for vicious attacks from Australia - perhaps the people you have encountered have a lot of education and research behind them to back themselves up with. Perhaps they see holes as big as freeway tunnels in your arguments. Perhaps they are fed up with your attitude?

But onto the subject at hand...

What difference does knowing how many % of all Wikipedia reference-linkSIJ problems have one type of diagnosis help matters?

How does this help you in the clinic?

Perhaps you like to diagnose people based on the likelihood of things occurring?

It is great that you find most people have neuromuscular problems - so do i!!! They have the neural component which includes motor control and it blends into the way the myofascial component works. All clinicians who understand the Integrated Model of Function would agree. Which is why it is confusing that you attack the model...

And your statements on the emotional side of things is simply pure ignorance - go read Waddell and the Back Pain Revolution or Lorimer Mosely at the library.

Good luck to you neuromuscular - i am getting tired of trying to maintain contact...
Additional Comment I forgot:
By the way, my friend has terrible pain. It is so bad that he cannot lift enough groceries to feed himself and he has lost so much weight he is emaciated.

He feels real pain.

I cannot help him.

There is nothing physically wrong with him.

He has Conversion Disorder.

Don't tell me the brain/emotional reasons isn't the cause of some types of back pain...