Hi Neurospast, My comments are based on the learning process of 26 years as a Physiotherapist in Private Practice. From which I have now retired. I originally followed the path of convention in making a diagnosis based on symptoms and the related book anatomy for about 1 1/2 years. I then remembered a Tutor who talked about the T4 Syndrome, which was never covered in depth. But the information given indicated that formal anatomy based treatment from time to time did not give good quick results.

To cut a very long story short I followed this alternative path and gradually created a new map of symptoms and how they were connected to alternative anatomical locations. So my treatments concentrated on these locations with excellent and predictable results. This is nothing like the "maps" produced by the Acupuncturists.

If you choose to follow the conventional way, you cannot be faulted. But if you are interested in further detail I'll be happy to oblige. It is not easy to break away from convention in the medical arena but now I have retired I can talk about it with impunity. There are not many Physios I know of who follow this T4 Syndrome approach, mostly because if they spoke up they would be shouted down.
Cheers,Tony Woodall.