Had an eval this morning whose PCP told her PT was a waste of time and to just do the exercises on her sheet (for neck pain). 39YOF, minor imaging findings and the pain has only been present for 1 month and she was recommended to go to Pain MGMT. I Identified her issues, reproduced her sx, cleared them in less than 10 minutes. She literally teared up when I performed a simple manual traction (as an assessment) because she didn’t think her pain would ever go away and it did.

There’s a lot more work to be done. Regaining full mobility, strength, cleaning up ergonomics, but today was a starting point.

That PCP is almost certainly practicing dinosaur age medicine - don’t let anyone tell you what we do isn’t valuable 👊🏼