Originally Posted by
JHG
I wonder if you might appreciate that most people that enter PT or DC school do so shortly after concluding their undergraduate studies with the intent of doing good work in a field of health care and may have never been exposed to the SS model. When I was studying chiropractic in Dallas, only 2 short hours away from WFAC, I had not heard of Rip or SSBBT as the first edition had not yet been published. The same can be said for anyone in PT school. So, where would we learn proper squat and deadlift mechanics? In PT/DC school? *This may change in the future if I may have some influence on the matter.
Immaterial of one’s professional background, blanket statements like yours do little to promote the spread of strength training as the medium of exercise medicine in health care. The nice thing about the SS community is that people of all backgrounds who are intelligent enough to appreciate the simplicity and effectiveness of the model, along with the level of expertise demonstrated by Rip and the cadre of SSCs, gravitate to this forum to learn more and engage in useful conversation. If one cannot appreciate the information conveyed by Rip, Drs. Feigenbaum, Baraki, Morris, Petrizzo and Deaton, to name a few, then the individual receiving this information either lacks the requisite intelligence to do so or is happy to appeal to ignorance. You can’t blame someone if they are not intelligent enough to understand something, they are working with what they’ve got, so leave them alone. Ignorance exists as well, but overcoming it requires that one possess the resolve to do so.
Strength development is not by far the common denominator with respect to chronic pain management. Tackling chronic pain requires a multifactorial strategy, which includes exercise therapy, as we know that exercise confers a hypoalgesic effect in individuals who experience painful syndromes. Understanding and appreciating this demonstrates the added value that evidence-based PTs and DCs, who apply resistance training protocols in the setting of a psychologically-informed practice, bring to the strength training community. I hope this may satisfy of your wonder of “what all this schooling is about”.