Originally Posted by
tfranc
I was speaking to a PT recently on how sports medicine and medical practice creates treatments and he basically admitted that correlative evidence is an industry norm (duh), but he was like "what do you want us to do? Not use it if it helps people?" Obviously there's an issue with practitioners and those who write "the literature" forgetting the correlative nature of this information. Whether that's due to simple inertia or something else, I have no idea, but people need to stop saying "things are this way" when they have no way of knowing if they actually are.