Episode 69: Crack is Whack - Adam Meakins and A Modern Approach to Manual Therapy

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Welcome to Episode 69 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah are joined by Adam Meakins, also known as The Sports Physio, to discuss his recent co-authored paper, “A modern way to teach and practice manual therapy.” Adam highlights the major issues in current manual therapy practice and education, as detailed in this extensively cited paper, which draws on decades of research. He also outlines what a modern, evidence-based approach to manual therapy could look like.

In this episode you will learn:

• The distinction between clinician-centered and patient-centered care.
• How traditional manual therapy relies on pathoanatomical reasoning and what research reveals about its reliability and validity.
• The potential harms of traditional manual therapy, including the propagation of harmful, fragilizing, and disempowering narratives about the body.
• Why manual therapy treatments cannot precisely target individual joints and tissues, nor produce specific outcomes for those areas.
• How human biases, such as appeal to authority, sunk cost fallacies, cognitive dissonance, and big egos, hinder the evolution of beliefs and practices in manual therapy.
• Predictions for the future of manual therapy.

And more!

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References:

Laurel and Sarah’s interview on the Conspirituality Podcast - Episode 205: Dismantling Movement Dogma

Episode 62: Make McGill Make Sense

Episode 3: Massage Mistruths

Adam Meakins’ publication - A modern way to teach and practice manual therapy

Adam Meakins’ website