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After physiotherapy on my hand at the hospital I took a walk around the city on my way home Feb 21, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.
...... over the weekend of the 11th/12th of this month we are having a reunion of the group of girls I trained with 44 years ago to become a physiotherapist.
This is in fact the fourth reunion we have held over the past thirteen years, all in different parts of the country, but this time I have the task of organising it at a seafront hotel in Eastbourne on the South Coast.
Although not everyone from our set will be there we will be having a pretty good turnout with three coming over from Canada for it !
Husbands/partners are welcome too and we always make the dinner a black tie event.
This time several people expressed a wish to make a long weekend of it, so for those arriving on the Friday I have organised a visit to the theatre in the evening. Saturday will be spent enjoying the area and then in the evening when everyone has arrived we will have our black tie dinner in a private function room.
Everyone is staying at the hotel and for those not in a rush to leave on Sunday morning, I have booked Sunday lunch in a pub in a very pretty nearby Sussex village.
This is the surprise cake I have made for the event which we will have with the coffee after the meal on Saturday ( rather like at a meal for a wedding !!).
Round the sides it depicts us in our St Thomas' uniform as students and has the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy badge on the top, which we worked so hard for !!!
It's a rich fruit cake with marzipan and fondant icing, so I could decorate it ahead as I have another cake to do before the reunion !
I'm posting the pictures now as I think next week could be a bit hectic !
Please keep your fingers crossed that this one doesn't dissolve before the day ! ;o))
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I was quite pleased with the figures until DH said "Mmm ..... I didn't know that the Piltdown Man was a physio ...... "
Spinal manipulation, which chiropractors call "spinal adjustment" or "chiropractic adjustment", is the most common treatment used in chiropractic care. Spinal manipulation is a passive manual maneuver during which a three-joint complex is taken past the normal range of movement, but not so far as to dislocate or damage the joint. Its defining factor is a dynamic thrust, which is a sudden force that causes an audible release and attempts to increase a joint's range of motion. High-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulation (HVLA-SM) thrusts have physiological effects that signal neural discharge from paraspinal muscle tissues, depending on duration and amplitude of the thrust are factors of the degree in paraspinal muscle spindles activation. Clinical skill in employing HVLA-SM thrusts depends on the ability of the practitioner to handle the duration and magnitude of the load. More generally, spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) describes techniques where the hands are used to manipulate, massage, mobilize, adjust, stimulate, apply traction to, or otherwise influence the spine and related tissues.
There are several schools of chiropractic adjustive techniques, although most chiropractors mix techniques from several schools. The following adjustive procedures were received by more than 10% of patients of licensed U.S. chiropractors in a 2003 survey: Diversified technique (full-spine manipulation, employing various techniques), extremity adjusting, Activator technique (which uses a spring-loaded tool to deliver precise adjustments to the spine), Thompson Technique (which relies on a drop table and detailed procedural protocols), Gonstead (which emphasizes evaluating the spine along with specific adjustment that avoids rotational vectors), Cox/flexion-distraction (a gentle, low-force adjusting procedure which mixes chiropractic with osteopathic principles and utilizes specialized adjusting tables with movable parts), adjustive instrument, Sacro-Occipital Technique (which models the spine as a torsion bar), Nimmo Receptor-Tonus Technique, applied kinesiology(which emphasises "muscle testing" as a diagnostic tool), and cranial. Chiropractic biophysics technique uses inverse functions of rotations during spinal manipulation. Koren Specific Technique (KST) may use their hands, or they may use an electric device known as an "ArthroStim" for assessment and spinal manipulations. Insurers in the US and UK that cover other chiropractic techniques exclude KST from coverage because they consider it to be "experimental and investigational." Medicine-assisted manipulation, such as manipulation under anesthesia, involves sedation or local anesthetic and is done by a team that includes an anesthesiologist; a 2008 systematic review did not find enough evidence to make recommendations about its use for chronic low back pain.
Many other procedures mentioned in Chiropractic SEO guide for treating the spine, other joints and tissues, and general health issues. The following procedures were received by more than one-third of patients of licensed U.S. chiropractors in a 2003 survey: Diversified technique (full-spine manipulation; mentioned in previous paragraph),physical fitness/exercise promotion, corrective or therapeutic exercise, ergonomic/postural advice, self-care strategies, activities of daily living, changing risky/unhealthy behaviors, nutritional/dietary recommendations, relaxation/stress reduction recommendations, ice pack/cryotherapy, extremity adjusting (also mentioned in previous paragraph), trigger point therapy, and disease prevention/early screening advice.
A 2010 study describing Belgium chiropractors and their patients found chiropractors in Belgium mostly focus on neuromusculoskeletal complaints in adult patients, with emphasis on the spine. The diversified technique is the most often applied technique at 93%, followed by the Activator mechanical-assisted technique at 41%. A 2009 study assessing chiropractic students giving or receiving spinal manipulations while attending a U.S. chiropractic college found Diversified, Gonstead, and upper cervical manipulations are frequently used methods.