Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Street Doctors and Street Physios

There has been a recent BBC series called Street Doctors where a group of 4 doctors has done consultations with the general public on the streeets of UK cities instead of doing this in hospitals or surgeries. It was surprising how many times they said that the person consulting with them needed physiotherapy. Perhaps the BBC should do a series called "Street Physios" because there would be no shortage of potential candidates to act as consultants nor a lack pf people wanting advice. On one occasion they gave some sightly misleading advice about clicking joints saying that these arose from nitrogen gas formation. Whilst true in a general sense for benign clicks, repeated painful clicks can indicate some form of joint pathology, a point that the BBC did not make. Your average Street Physio would have know this. However as a profession it is interesteing to speculate what sort of image that physios would project. Would Street Physios be excessively bogged down by obscure, unproven theories or would they be able to provide reassurance and education in a positive manner?

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