@%#$&*^ Physiotherapist

[Riff Raff]

Well yesterday I went for physio on my neck and he decided to use both thumbs to put pressure on left side of my neck cos that side has been slower to heal. I was pretty sore afterwards, but it was nothing compared to how it is today. Basically I'm back to square one after four weeks of healing - can't move neck round to left or tilt up and down. I can get an appointment with an osteopath tomorrow, but just wondering if anyone knows anyone really good in south Auckland who can fix up this physio's f$@k up. Bear in mind I live in Papakura and will have to walk there or get a taxi. I haven't rung the physio yet to tell him what a knobwit he is.

[aff-man]

Physio's are masacistic (spelling) bastards. When i did my knee and ankle in i went to this f$#kwit who basically did nothing and then told me i could play on it..... back to square one. I know a really good physio but unfortunatley he works at the aut physio place.

Sorry to hear that some dumbass has delayed your return to riding NOT

[Coyote]

Kinda like my Brother and his broken leg. Has the cast on for 2 weeks, goes to get an x-ray, its healing wrong and is bent, they open cast and push his leg back into place, starts healing process again. His cast will be taken off the day before first school day

[vifferman]

Sorry to hear that, Riff Raff.

Just reinforces my prejudice against physiotherapy: I've NEVER been to one without it making me feel a lot worse, and not just in the short term either. I'm sure that manipulation of the rotator cuff in my right shoulder over weeks and weeks of physio is what might have started aaaaarrrrrrrrthritis in my decrepit body.

Sometimes things just need to be left alone to heal, or have very easy exercise, not be poked, prodded and manipulated until they're worse.
Why do things hurt? Because your body's telling you there's damage.

My boss goes to a very good osteopath in Pakuranga or somewhere, but he (my boss) is on holiday, so I can't help, sorry.

Hope someone else can, and that you get better real soon.

[Lucyloo]

I can get an appointment with an osteopath tomorrow, but just wondering if anyone knows anyone really good in south Auckland who can fix up this physio's f$@k up. Bear in mind I live in Papakura and will have to walk there or get a taxi. I haven't rung the physio yet to tell him what a knobwit he is.

Riff Raff, I go to a great osteo, but he is in Ellerslie....
Ryan Young 102 Main Highway Ellerslie
ph. 525 7766

Close to the train station if that is any help. If I wasn't working (in Ponsonby!) I'd come and pick you up and take you.

Lucy

[Yokai]

I know a really good physio but unfortunatley he works at the aut physio place.

But that's OK -

Riff Raff - if you get your gp to write a letter, you can get our friend Mike Ellis at AUT Sportsmed to sort you out. It's just a matter of getting the GP to recommend that you go to him... he is REALLY good (but don't tell him I said so!)

[FROSTY:Me]

But that's OK -

Riff Raff - if you get your gp to write a letter, you can get our friend Mike Ellis at AUT Sportsmed to sort you out. It's just a matter of getting the GP to recommend that you go to him... he is REALLY good (but don't tell him I said so!)

How dya make contact with this dude. --I want all the help I can get lol

[Riff Raff]

Just reinforces my prejudice against physiotherapy: I've NEVER been to one without it making me feel a lot worse

I've never been a fan of physio - osteopaths always do a better job. I only went to one because that's what the Ortho Specialist referred me to. I guess I'll just have to wait until tomorrow and hopefully the osteopath can sort it out.

[James Deuce]

Physio's have no idea with necks. Stay away.

Osteopath's are quacks. They should be labelled more clearly. I'm picking Violent Sociopath. The reality with necks is (I've broken it - compression fractures C4 & C5) that time and gentle exercise are the only things that work. That and a calm mental outlook, free of depair and aggravation. If people push your button and make you upset, stay away from them. It is seriously the best treatment for your injury.

[Firefight]

Well yesterday I went for physio on my neck and he decided to use both thumbs to put pressure on left side of my neck cos that side has been slower to heal. I was pretty sore afterwards, but it was nothing compared to how it is today. Basically I'm back to square one after four weeks of healing - can't move neck round to left or tilt up and down. I can get an appointment with an osteopath tomorrow, but just wondering if anyone knows anyone really good in south Auckland who can fix up this physio's f$@k up. Bear in mind I live in Papakura and will have to walk there or get a taxi. I haven't rung the physio yet to tell him what a knobwit he is.

i know your not keen on Physios, but heve you tired Geoff Marr at Drury, hes a sports Physio, done work for some mob called the "Äll Blacks", he worked on me when I ripped My abuductor (sp?) muscle of my inner leg after a cross country motor bike race,, our co hire him as a consultant , he come in a works with out shifts when they do PT, hes in GSR Drury, not far from the Pub.

F/F

[toads]

I've never been a fan of physio - osteopaths always do a better job. I only went to one because that's what the Ortho Specialist referred me to. I guess I'll just have to wait until tomorrow and hopefully the osteopath can sort it out.

yes that has been my experience too, osteopaths are altogether more gentle in their approach, and I know what a neck injury feels like, mine hasn't given me probs for a while but it took 7 years to come right to the extent that it doesn't give me hell continually, now it's only once a year type thign after I've been heavy lifting for a day or too

[Hitcher]

Physios!!! [Steam gushes from hobby horse's flared nostrils]

I blame ACC for financing this "industry". How many years training do physios do to learn how to use an ultrasound machine and prescribe, of all things, exercises!! Having "qualified", practitioners think this is a serious profession. And then sting you for serious amounts of dosh.

Using the old 80-20 rule, 80% of the time for soft tissue injuries, strains and lesions, the body given time will heal itself. Waggling an ultrasound machine over it will make fuck-all difference. The other 20% of cases should be referred to medical practitioners who know what they're looking at and how to treat it. However the US-wagglers don't know what they don't know and are happy to keep invoicing as long as the punters keep rocking up.

[MOTOXXX]

Ive never had a gread deal of luck with osteopaths and physios...but.
i used to go to a physio down kapiti rd for a while for my back and he was crap. Just kept clicking my back and doing pressure points on it and telling me to come back in a few days. That went on for ages and he didnt realy solve anything, so i stopped going.

Then i found a random one in the phone book, Karen Morgan at Mazengarb Med Centre after i realy realy stuffed my back. i would never go to any other one after going to her.
I went there with a very bad back. eg i couldnt bend and was walking slow so i wouldnt hurt it.
she spent an hour asking questions, doing excersises and pressure points etc and talking me through things i can do to help. Then she told me to come back in about 4 days.

I came back again and she gave me a book to read called "treat your own back" She said that back problems are on going and reading this will help you from having to spend more money to see her all the time.

2 visits latter i was almost fixed, and now i am all good. She even photo copied pages from the book for me to keep. what a nice lady.

[Clockwork]

Tend to agree with Hitcher, almost any ACC claim these days seems to get referred to a physio where personal experience and talking to family and friends etc leads me to believe that many of these referrals just aren't necessary.

[Hitcher]

Ive never had a gread deal of luck with osteopaths and physios...but.
i used to go to a physio down kapiti rd for a while for my back and he was crap. Just kept clicking my back and doing pressure points on it and telling me to come back in a few days. That went on for ages and he didnt realy solve anything, so i stopped going.

Then i found a random one in the phone book, Karen Morgan at Mazengarb Med Centre after i realy realy stuffed my back. i would never go to any other one after going to her.
I went there with a very bad back. eg i couldnt bend and was walking slow so i wouldnt hurt it.
she spent an hour asking questions, doing excersises and pressure points etc and talking me through things i can do to help. Then she told me to come back in about 4 days.

I came back again and she gave me a book to read called "treat your own back" She said that back problems are on going and reading this will help you from having to spend more money to see her all the time.

2 visits latter i was almost fixed, and now i am all good. She even photo copied pages from the book for me to keep. what a nice lady.

I rest my case. She gave you a book and sympathy knowing full well that, given time, your body would heal itself. Amazing what deficiencies a good bedside manner can cover.