Staying Current
Hands down the most common question I field is this: How does one stay current on the research? The answer is easy. Read everything that has ever been published from cover to cover, analyzing the...
Category: Critical Thinking
Simple Is Hard
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein Something I have noticed over the years is that physical therapists like to make things a lot more complicated...
Top 5 Treatment Fallacies
Roughly 2300 years ago, Aristotle came up with his list of logical fallacies in his treatise on logic and argument, The Organon. Fallacies are tricks that your mind is likely to play on you to make...
Does God Exist?
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??? IS HE REALLY GOING TO TAKE ON THIS QUESTION??? Easy now, fella. This is just a thought experiment about scientific questions and has almost nothing to do with God....
Appropriate Treatment Good; Inappropriate Treatment Bad
Ok. So you know that I don’t like the idea of defining the world as “Good Things” and “Bad Things”. I also generally don’t like politics and advertising. Both have the one goal of...
Getting Rid of Something Positive
That title is a little misleading. Remember “positive” does not mean “good” when we talk science. It means “additive”. In my opinion, physical therapy is most effective at removing something positive from our patients....
Does Experience Matter?
Yes. Experience matters. Thanks for reading! I’ll look for your comments below… Of course I’m kidding. I turned off the comments long ago – the last people that I want to hear from are...
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,...