Laurie's Blogs.
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Oct 2022
Oct 2022
What the Heck is Bayesian Clinical Reasoning?
TRUST ME, YOU SHOULD READ THIS... despite the title!!I was scrolling around looking to see what was new with the Cambridge IVDD Research Group, and I came across a study published by one of the investigators. Khan S, Freeman P. Bayesian clinical reasoning in the first opinio...
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Sep 2022
Sep 2022
Interventions for the Treatment of Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition
In last week’s blog, we looked at defining and understanding the mechanisms behind arthrogenic muscle inhibition (AMI). Find it at: https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=584 This week, we go back to the literature to give us some ideas on how to best a...
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Sep 2022
Sep 2022
What is Arthrogenic Muscle Inhibition?
It is a well-known phenomenon that muscle inhibition can occur due to changes in, or injury to, joint tissues. Recently, I found two review articles that discuss this fact. Furthermore, they delve deeper into the “why” as well as “how to treat”...
10
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
Magical Magnetic Field Detectors – Dogs!
I came across and article that was simply amazing. It reminded me of a previous article that I had found a while ago as well. Simply put, dogs know direction. They know North, South, East, West, and seem to have preferences! Say what?!! So,...
03
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
A Not-Quite-Right Dose of Manual Therapy
The last of this series (because I don’t want to get into dosing of modalities… which is likely a whole paper or video topic in and of itself), is about the Dosing of Manual Therapies. PS If you’ve not check out the previous blogs in this...
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Aug 2022
Aug 2022
An Overdose of Exercise
One of the reasons I still see patients, is that they provide me great learning opportunities and opportunities to tell stories! So, here we go. The blog about Proper Dosing of Therapies, was about more than just exercise. (Manual therapies, education, modalities...
21
Aug 2022
Aug 2022
An Under-dosing of Education
Subsequent to my blog post – Proper Dosing of Your Therapies: https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=579 My brain has been on fire thinking of case examples! The next case example is one where the surgeon under-dosed the education component for a client.&...
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Aug 2022
Aug 2022
Proper Dosing of Your Therapies
I came across an interesting blog – Great Outcomes Require Proper Dosing, by John Woolf MS, PT, ATC of WebPT. https://www.webpt.com/blog/great-outcomes-require-proper-dosing/I’ll give you the synopsis of the article… The concept of dosing is com...
06
Aug 2022
Aug 2022
Medical Diagnosis Cases – The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Last week, I did a blog based on a podcast I listened to about whether or not you need a Medical Diagnosis (before treating a patient). Check it out here: https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=577 So, while I was listening to the podcast and writi...
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Jul 2022
Jul 2022
Do You Need A Medical Diagnosis?
https://www.physio-network.com/free-resources/physio-explained-by-physio-network/?_kx=SH7aUkwtae0TP4OWhc_NFLL9g6KhdIoHzgQOsih2oqk%3D.TVa3AR I subscribe to this podcast, and when this one came up, I thought… “GOLD!” This will make my...
