In this scenario you did your patient a disservice. You sacrificed managing the one problem she came to you for and seeing it through to a conclusion for being everything to that patient.  Why?

Good question.  That's for you to reflect upon.  (Reflection, by the way is one of the characteristics of an expert clinician).

Manual therapy skills are important, very important. They will get you out of situations that exercise or stretching or modalities simply can not, and as a unique skill set this is very important in becoming an expert clinician.

But there are four other attributes that expert clinicians have and they all matter. 

On the road to becoming an expert clinician in your career you will at some time have to develop these.  One thing common to many experts is that they have either designed or learned to use a systematic approach to handling various problems because they learn that a system yields the results and that leads them to clinical certainty. This is a topic for another conversation and we’ll leave it until then. 

Until then imagine having an effective system for handling non-surgical shoulder problems, whereby you know what to do in every session, with every problem, with every patient.  What if you no longer got stumped by a shoulder, but instead were completely confident, sure of yourself, and invoked trust and confidence in your patients and peers?   Would that be of value to you? 

If so, then you simply must register for this shoulder seminar. 

Today.

Take Your Ability to Treat Shoulder Pain to the Next Level!

• What is inverse C7-T1 function and why must you know about it when treating the shoulder?

• What rib has been shown to intrinsically cause shoulder pain and how do you handle that?

• What tests produce the highest level of certainty (when combined) to help diagnose shoulder pain?