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When I first started studying massage therapy and soft tissue therapy, I thought good treatment meant using really firm pressure. That seemed to be the general belief. It was reinforced by classmates, tutors and practice clients. "No pain, no gain" and all that! Then, about halfway through my course, I started coming across different ideas. At first it was through social media, then through my own reading. Some of it challenged everything I'd been taught and, if I'm honest, i

Manual therapy doesn't do what I thought it did and probably not what a lot of people think it does either. Does it really matter if the explanation is correct? For me, that's a tricky question. Yes, to a point it matters. As therapists, I think we have a responsibility to give explanations that reflect the best evidence we have. But for many people receiving treatment, the exact explanation isn't the most important thing. What does matter is that we don't create the belief t