Asking Why: Evolutionary Reasoning and Manual Care
Barrett L. Dorko, P.T. In 1990 I wrote an essay about a young boy who’d been sent to me with an acutely painful neck. After turning it quickly left he experienced a great deal of pain and found that any attempt to return it toward the front felt even worse. I described the boy’s dilemma and then wrote: In Arlington Virginia The Old Guard marches before the Tomb of the Unknowns. Its members are remarkably the same in every respect. The precision of their movement is matched by the perfect stillness of their erect postures. They seem to embody composure…