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Hopefully he is a harmless idiot.
But it appears that he can be a significant danger to society.

I think he does not know the medical definition of cervical instability.
Blind injections about C1-2 can and have proven fatal.
Hopefully he is using a 25G 1.5" needle and cannot get to deeper structures.

I don't like it. It is a black eye for PMR having this guy out there talking smack.
 
any branch of medicine which forces you to learn the most high-tech techniques in Honduras has to make you a little bit skeptical.....
 
lobelsteve said:
Hopefully he is a harmless idiot.
But it appears that he can be a significant danger to society.

I think he does not know the medical definition of cervical instability.
Blind injections about C1-2 can and have proven fatal.
Hopefully he is using a 25G 1.5" needle and cannot get to deeper structures.

I don't like it. It is a black eye for PMR having this guy out there talking smack.
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I was at a AAPMR meeting around 8 yrs ago when they were doing a session on Cervical spine in one of the big rooms. One guy showed a video of his Trigger pt technique. He was jabbing a 2" needle throughout the Cervical paraspinals (I think) and never once withdrew on the syringe before injecting 😱. People in the audience were yelping, watching that debacle.

I walked out, I was so appalled. I was friends with one of the organizers of that session, and he was equally appalled.
 
RUOkie said:
I was at a AAPMR meeting around 8 yrs ago when they were doing a session on Cervical spine in one of the big rooms. One guy showed a video of his Trigger pt technique. He was jabbing a 2" needle throughout the Cervical paraspinals (I think) and never once withdrew on the syringe before injecting 😱. People in the audience were yelping, watching that debacle.

I walked out, I was so appalled. I was friends with one of the organizers of that session, and he was equally appalled.
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This kind of lecture/demo is one of the reasons I rarely go to AAPM&R annual assembly. Crappy lectures given by people saying "Hey, look at all the cool thing I do!" and none of it having any literature support. In fact, most get defensive and sannoyed when you ask for their sources:

"I do not use 'sources' as you put them <disgusted stare>. I have succesfully treated thousands of patients with these techniques!" Then the moderator comes to their defense...

These are the kinds of people that make the rest of the doctors see PM&R as a bunch of crackpots. And we do have a lot of crackpots in our field.
 
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