A Sense of Things
Barrett L. Dorko, P.T. In 1992 I did a presentation for The International Federation of Orthopedic Manipulative Therapists about the potential effect of manual care upon the therapist. I spoke of stretch-activated ion channels in the therapist’s hands, reflexive effect and my personal experience of increasing sensitivity as I remained in the clinic year after year. Geoffrey Maitland, the highly respected founder of manual care in Australia, moderated the session and he addressed the 700 therapists gathered as I took my seat. “I don’t know about you,” he said, “but that was beautiful music to my ears.” I was pleased,…