The desperate patient causes the desperate clinician to do desperate things

The notes read:

“Patient presented with left sided knee pain after going for a long walk with his dog 2 days ago. Now this blog isn’t about how I treated Paul (although I will do one on request) but instead about how these machines and passive treatments rob our patients of their self efficacy. Do our patients really expect us to fix them or do they want the answers to these four simple questions…

By the way, the answer to all 4 of those questions is not an machine with some gel on it just like my good friend Paul now recognises.

Source: thehonestphysio.com