Could You Be Wrong?
We all have beliefs – there’s nothing wrong with that. We also all have prejudices, biases, etc. Not ideal, but that’s the reality. With some appropriate critical thinking, you can keep those at bay....
Does Positive Mean What You Think It Means?
When chatting with others, we all understand what someone means when they say positive or negative. Positive usually falls in line with the idea of the “bright side” as in being an optimist and having a positive...
When A Valid Argument Can Be False
“That’s valid,” you say, but what do you mean by that? A single statement can be valid by itself if it is a previously proven “truth”, but what about an argument? You remember arguments,...
Why I am not a Manual Therapist
Read that title! Here comes Erik again, with all his manual therapy hate and negativity! *Sigh* This is not an attack on manual therapists, it is a defense of NOT being a manual therapist....
Uncertainty and The Simple-Minded
I’ve written in a previous post that reality keeps us from being 100% certain of any “truth”. This is why we have science and its flaming laser sword of falsifiability. But why is this...
Are your patients out of control?
In psychology, a lot of things are described as a continuum: Introvert vs extrovert, optimist vs pessimist, etc. Nobody is purely one or the other, but everyone falls somewhere on the continuum. Also, many...
Understanding Specific and Non-Specific Effects
In episodes of PT Inquest, we have discussed the need to understand the specific effects of an intervention in contrast to the non-specific effects of an intervention. Since understanding the specific effects of a treatment...
Comments Off
I get asked all the time one question in particular: “Why do you have the comments turned off on your website? I’d love to throw my two-cents in!” Do I not want the feedback? Do...
It’s the Higgs, baby!
July 4, 2012 was a very big day. Yes, it was Independence Day in the United States, but that comes every year. On July 4, 2012, The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) officially...
Science Series – Part 5: Seppuku and The Tooth Fairy
This is the final post of a 5-part series that I am writing on science and PT practice. If you have not read Parts 1 – 4, do that first before reading any further… Uh...