TIL that most diagnoses and prognoses of back injury and sciatica are based on American insurance actuarial tables and insurance guidelines and not scientific research.
Have you read that 8% of people have a sciatic nerve that pierces their piriformis muscle. I can’t remember the percentage of that group that suffers for it, but I did treat someone who had zero relief from physio et al for years until she had the surgery, cutting the piriformis a smidge releasing the sciatic nerve. I tried to fire them as a client because I hated the business side of being a therapist and I wasn’t fixing their problem, they refused as I was having the best results dry needling their piriformis medial and laterally.
I have been reading a book about back medicine
TIL that most diagnoses and prognoses of back injury and sciatica are based on American insurance actuarial tables and insurance guidelines and not scientific research.
Have you read that 8% of people have a sciatic nerve that pierces their piriformis muscle. I can’t remember the percentage of that group that suffers for it, but I did treat someone who had zero relief from physio et al for years until she had the surgery, cutting the piriformis a smidge releasing the sciatic nerve. I tried to fire them as a client because I hated the business side of being a therapist and I wasn’t fixing their problem, they refused as I was having the best results dry needling their piriformis medial and laterally.
I bet they’re pretty bloody accurate though
the stats are correct for a population but you can’t use them in place of examining an individual
Sure, you can say that about statistics of literally any medical condition
Now you have me thinking about every other medical condition
😂