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Direct patient access for physical therapists in Norway

September 10, 2015October 16, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

I have long argued that Norwegian physical therapists with advanced post-professional training in Orthopedic Manipulative Therapy, are qualified to practice independently and to serve as the first point of patient entry into the health care system. However, current graduates of Norway’s physical therapy educational programs who have not … [read more]

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July 10, 2015August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

I did not expect that I at the age of 92 years I would still teach and write about Orthopedic Medicine and Manipulative Therapy. I have seen much, and thought much, and still have much to say about the treatment of arthro-neuro-muscular conditions with manual techniques. However, I … [read more]

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Recommendation to abandon rotatory joint techniques in manipulative therapy

July 7, 2015August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

I have not used a rotatory technique in my practice nor taught a rotatory manipulation in over 15 years. By 1979, I no longer taught rotatory techniques for the extremity joints, and in 1991 I stopped teaching rotatory techniques in the spine. I came to these decisions based … [read more]

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Limitations of evidence-based treatment and research in manipulative therapy

July 7, 2015September 11, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

In an ideal world treatment decisions would be based on the evidence revealed by clinical trials. However, many variables affect accurate determinations of cause and effect in arthro-neuro-muscular dis­orders. The validity of clinical trials in the manual therapies is confounded by many factors. Valid measurement tools for manual … [read more]

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OMT schools of thought: What’s in a name?

October 27, 2014August 31, 2016 Freddy Kaltenborn

Perhaps the time has come for OMT practitioners to cease naming treatments according to a school of thought. The principles of treatment are far more important than the name of the practitioner who first developed the technique. It is not important that a technique, for example, was originally … [read more]

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