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A cure for plantar fasciitis? Dream on

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by NewsBot, Jan 5, 2007.

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    HASLAM'S VIEW: A cure for plantar fasciitis? Dream on
    Practitioner. Tonbridge: Nov 27, 2006. pg. 71
    Professor David Haslam CBE FRCGP
    GP, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire; President, Royal College of General Practitioners; National Clinical Adviser to the Healthcare Commission; and Visiting Professor at de Montfort University, Leicester.
     
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  3. DaVinci

    DaVinci Well-Known Member

    and look at the ads that have appeared at the top of this page for plantar fasciitis cures!
     
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    They will not always be there - so refresh the page or check later. It often depends on how much the advertiser is willing to pay, the IP address you have connected from and number of clicks on the ad, etc ... Google very smart in its serving up of contextually relevant ads.
     
  5. I made it 848 000 hits. But type in "broken leg" and you get about 2 430 000 hits and we generally know how to treat that so i'm not sure the above statement is actually true.

    I think this is a very NHS approach. In a rational universe numbers statistics and targets reflect reality. However in the NHS because our masters are so far removed from the clinical coalface that results are purely abstract it almost seems that numbers CREATE the reality. Therefore if somebody can be persuaded not to come back in for treatment it is considered to be a cure and the we get the lovely warm glow of a job well done.

    In his book 1984 George Orwell called it "doublethink". To hold two fundamentally incompatable concepts in ones brain and believe them both to be true. The surgeon knows that the patients he has scared away are not any better off than when they came in but still
    . Two plus two can equal 3, 4 and 5 at the same time.

    He missed out acupuncture, Reiki, faith healing, homeopathy and counselling (yes really).

    Could it be that the range of treatments found to be effective stems from the fact that PF is as much a symptom as a disease and the treatments reflect the diversity of causes? If the PF was caused by a skydiving injury weight loss will not help much. If the patient is a 30 stone marathon runner steroid injection will be of limited value!

    Regards
    Robert
     
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