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Osteopath or Physio recommendation Melbourne? 4-Dec-2014 At 9:53:01 AM rb

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I've been to see plenty of practitioners for various reasons, with varying success. If you aren't getting anywhere with whoever you are seeing, try someone else. Not all medical professionals are equally skilled at treating all injuries. I would not see the same physio for a knee injury as a shoulder injury. A specialist at one is unlikely to be an expert on the other.

Here's another way of looking at the difference between osteos and physios. We all use the outcomes of evidence-based thinking every day. Ropes, for example, are made the way they are because scientists studied the properties of nylon, documented stretch, breaking strain, etc, etc, and engineers applied this knowledge to making the kernmantle ropes we all use.
That is exactly what physios and medical doctors do, they take the outcomes of medical research, and apply it to patients. Osteopathy ignores the first step where assumptions are tested, and jumps straight to the conclusion - IE, "this works because I say it works". In almost every test osteo has been shown to be ineffective. I sure wouldn't be climbing on a rope made of an undocumented material, that through multiple tests had been shown to be no more effective than having no rope at all...