In other words, good people skills needed.
"Manual skills", whatever those may be, only rarely help people if the patient isn't comfortable around the therapist and there is no buy in. Pain relief from manual therapy, especially for people with chronic pain, has little to do with the technical competence a practitioner has in a given technique and a lot to do with the fact that somebody who is sharp and nice to be around, highly educated and who should know what they are doing is laying there hands on me and telling me that this will help because of xyz.
Exercise has a much higher likelihood of causing actual lasting physiologic changes in musculoskeletal tissues than any manual technique. But for people with chronic pain it is often the brain that needs changing, not the peripheral tissue.
My point is not to criticize the quoted post at all. But just to point out that a certain personalities will naturally succeed better in cash-based practice than others, depending on the client niche being catered too. At the end of the day what was said above is true, you have to be successful and fixing your patients issues to make money and attract clients. But you can be a manual therapy whizz kid and not accomplish crap if you give your client the creeps.
Pardon the random late night soap box stream of consciousness from my brain on this month old thread with a question largely unrelated to my answer from a pre-PT that probably isn't even checking this. Probably just typing for my own entertainment at this point...Time for bed...
