Entries by Dalton Yates

The issue with the ‘root cause’

A patient comes to see you with a problem several therapists haven’t been able to solve…Pain and positive assessment findings popping up everywhere like wildfires…Treating a complaint and finding improvements, only to take two steps back before the next consult… Maybe you just haven’t found the root cause of the problem yet –or maybe pain […]

It’s okay to say you don’t know

In the manual therapy setting, we often have patients, other therapists, and even ourselves searching for answers to many questions – Why is this joint sore? What are the mechanisms of this intervention? Why did I wake up with a sore neck? What is going to be the best exercise for this pathology?The list goes on… […]