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Who's Actually Keeping Physios in Check?

If I think about my own appointments with physiotherapists as a patient recently, I’ve been told I need an MRI and I’ve been told I don’t. I’ve been told I need an injection, and the next one said I don’t. One says I need eight treatments, one says a couple and I’ll be fine. One says it’s my hamstring, the other says it’s my glutes. Same leg and still the same old me.

And I think any profession, especially one that’s supposed to be science-based, should have some level of consistency. As a patient it’s actually quite worrying, and certainly not reassuring, to be handed polar opposite views by…

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