Break

I am taking a break from postings for a couple of months in order to catch up on the enormous amount of writing and admin that I need to do before the autumn. Essential bits and pieces will be put on my web site - have a good summer! JRC

Update

Sorry for lack of postings but I have been a bit poorly. My chest infection was followed by bronchitis which was followed by a reaction to the antibiotics!! I am just about back in the land of the living. I shall save dealing with the Crown chakra until next time. For now, though, I want to share a couple of observations in my profession that have been apparent over the past few years and which continue to surprise me (although I should be used to it by now).

1. I try and help my patients as conscientiously as I can and I remain extremely busy even though the financial climate is hard in the U.K. I think I get results - why is this? It is a combination of 2 things - experience and common sense! As I've been in practice for over 40 years - mostly in the private sector, I have become experienced in many different techniques ( a few I have invented myself) and have learnt to take some diagnostic short cuts that make for fewer treatment sessions. I attempt to treat the CAUSE of something, be it musculo-skeletal, organic or emotional. Often it isn't rocket science!!! I am continually staggered by tales of other practitioners just alleviating symptoms without even looking to find the true aetiology - in other words taking the easy option and trying to prolong the treatment sessions. Being true to your patient, listening to them carefully (they know about their body far more than doctors and others give them credit for) and being totally professional is something that we should all strive for.
2. My original profession of physiotherapy has changed out of all recognition over the past 10 years or so. Gone are the days when the topic of Massage and Touch was taught at under graduate level and it is now considered to be 'fringe' by many health authorities. It can only be learnt on specialist post graduate courses and programmes - what a sad indictment! Public funded physiotherapy seems to rely on exercise therapy and electrotherapy - the patient is hardly touched at all!!
3. Many physiotherapists practise do acupuncture - but it is generally Western medical pin sticking that uses formulae. It is almost impossible to receive traditional acupuncture in the pubic sector. By just treating symptoms by using formulaic acupuncture, you are reducing the practitioner to being an automaton.

Maybe I am just a grumpy old man - but I know what I would rather be doing and I shall shout from the rooftops where I think injustices occur - Keep well!!! JRC