Chiropractors

[Nightfly]

How the heck do you have to be on here as a med student? Sure when I say all, it is not accurate. 98-99%.

@erp7e

Hmm, so you didn’t read my post. The specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation is what I was refering to here, as an example.

And why assume that all physicians have no background in exercise physiology? I’m a fourth year medical student at the Univ. of Virginia who has a bachelor’s degree in exercise phys with thesis, not to mention a good deal of extracurricular reading and experience in the subject which I plan to incorporate in some fashion into my practice in conjunction with other personnel.

As another example, a R2 resident in PM&R here has a Ph.D. in exercise phys and did research for a number of years prior to medical school. One of his aims is to demonstrate through research the various benefits of strength training for the elderly in prevention of disease and enhancing quality of life.

The PM&R chair here, Dr. D. Casey Kerrigan, probably knows as much about gait biomechanics as anyone you’ll ever come across.

So your broad statements about ‘all’ physicians being this way or that way are unfounded.

[erp7e]

@Nightfly

How the heck do you have to be on here as a med student? Sure when I say all, it is not accurate. 98-99%.

How do I ‘have’ to be on here? Not sure I understand the question. Oh…did you mean how do I have the time? Well, it’s the end of my fourth year. Rest assured, when my intern year starts you won’t have to deal with me anymore.

My point is, you wouldn’t go to a plumber to get your roof fixed. There is a reason for subspecialization in medicine. A nephrologist may not know much about exercise, but a doc specializing in sports med or rehabilitation would (or should!).

Considering that 95% of personal trainers and so-called strength and conditioning specialists don’t know jack about exercise either, I’d say docs aren’t doing too badly with that percentage. I’ve been around many, and I’m certainly NOT speaking of the majority of the very astute people on this forum.

[erp7e]

@tc0710

ERP7E,

Sorry, if you thought my tone was negative. I wasn’t criticising just pointing you to a few things. Obviously strength trainings can do great things for the elderly. I hope your friend makes a difference and gets good publicity.

Just make sure you stay away from the powercleans and depth jumps with the over 60s - yes i actually read an article saying how great the power clean was for improving leg power to prevent old fokes falling!

YIKES! Hopefully they were not doing them on wobble boards while balancing a circus seal on their nose, too?!