calling all PTs turned DO

[DOctorJay]

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Ok so what's the deal with Freyette's Laws???

Anyone who has taken Kinesiology will notice that these laws are not what Punjabi and White were talking about. How do you resolve this with your profs? Are you just forgetting all that great stuff we learned in PT school or are you going to address the issue with your OMM faculty?

Just curious

-J

 

[Freeeedom!]

I had a hard time with ALOT at first. But then I realized that Freyette's Laws are truly only rules. Furthermore, we learned them in PT school anyway...so it wasn't a huge transition.
You will find that while using these rules your positioning for treatment becomes logical and far easier. Don't sweat it too much, don't let it block you from being the best manual medicine guy in your class...I almost did.

 

[DOctorJay]

I had a hard time with ALOT at first. But then I realized that Freyette's Laws are truly only rules. Furthermore, we learned them in PT school anyway...so it wasn't a huge transition.
You will find that while using these rules your positioning for treatment becomes logical and far easier. Don't sweat it too much, don't let it block you from being the best manual medicine guy in your class...I almost did.

Thanks for the post, I'm trying to be very open about this stuff and just take it in like it's new. Very thankful for my manual background already though and I can't wait to tear it up in anatomy.

-J

 

[delicatefade]

Thanks for the post, I'm trying to be very open about this stuff and just take it in like it's new. Very thankful for my manual background already though and I can't wait to tear it up in anatomy.

-J

Wow. I've never heard of Fryette's laws, unless I already know them but haven't heard the name. Care to enlighten me???

It also could be that I did mainly TBI/SCI rehab after school and lost all my manual skills (what little I had )

 

[DOctorJay]

hey delicate,

we didn't learn them in PT school, they're DO laws for combined motions in the spine (side bending and rotation). anyway here's a quick run down

Freyette's first law
-when the spine is neutral the side bending and rotation are opposite

second law
-when the spine is non-neutral (flexed/ extended) side bending and rotation are to the same side


third law
-motion in one direction modifies motion in all other directions

now if you go back to Kines you'll see this is NOT what we learned in PT school. This is an easier way to look at it though.

take it easy,
-J

 

[delicatefade]

You're right. That is definitely not what we learned. Thanks - good luck in class. We start on Tuesday.

hey delicate,

we didn't learn them in PT school, they're DO laws for combined motions in the spine (side bending and rotation). anyway here's a quick run down

Freyette's first law
-when the spine is neutral the side bending and rotation are opposite

second law
-when the spine is non-neutral (flexed/ extended) side bending and rotation are to the same side


third law
-motion in one direction modifies motion in all other directions

now if you go back to Kines you'll see this is NOT what we learned in PT school. This is an easier way to look at it though.

take it easy,
-J