How humiliating...the only guy to get cut on the edit floor John ; )

I still think the APTA Brand of PT's as sages and heroes/heroines is a myth....surely a few, but not most http://www.apta.org/Media/Releases/APTA/2009/2/3/ .

My other suggestion is create a second list of things we know with certainty in PT. That would be shorter and even more hotly debated I suspect. Which take me back to the hubris of "sage and hero/heroine" ....I think, maybe. : )

Great exercise either way. ~ matt

physical therapists are sages and heroes/heroines?

Thanks for the great discussion everyone. Selena your willingness to share the felt experience of your "bobules" not connecting and being in a state of "dis" was inspiring. Having been there, done that a while ago I hope I can offer some resources I found helpful in getting some stable ground again.
In the mid 90's as a hotshot biomechanist ortho PT (Baylor classmate of Joe Godges and a year ahead of Tim Flynn) my back was getting trashed despite all of best technique and training. Spare you the long story but since then diving deep into a biopsychosocial (and dare we utter "spiritual") approach. So here are some of my favorite resources grounded in evidence , mastery and patient values:
1. The discombulation is Transformational Learning pioneer Mezirow's "disorienting dilemma", first step in paradigm shifting of adult transformational learning. http://www.hrdmax.com/images/column_1325932983/Me...
2. If you come to physical stillness and direct attention to a broad awareness you might experience a somatic relationship beyond "mental", specifically heart and gut centered....I KNOW, there he goes woo woo land, but consider the heart/brain and heart/gut/flora, their collective neuropeptide soups, etc and that quite possibly you are descending down Otto Scharmer/Peter Senge's of MIT's left side of the Theory U for organizational and personal change http://www.presencing.com/sites/default/files/pag... These are fortune 50 companies participating.
3. Re: patient/therapist relationship, see Dan Siegel a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center and his book The Mindful Brain... he's studied the relationship extensively and nicely pieces together "bobules" of the shattered billiard ball biomechanical model to address emerging neuroscience/interpersonal neurobiology between we group social primates with excellent citation to the literature. http://drdansiegel.com/about/biography/
These are exciting times and call for we doctors of movement in our appreciation of the complexity of pain and function to adapt a transdisciplinary approach to our increasingly complex clientele (esp as we move from acute to complex lifestyle related challenges and co-morbidities). I believe this marks as an exciting a jumping off point in creativity for our profession as the heady days of the early 80's when we talked about diagnosing/mobilizing and autonomy. I'll leave you with my doctoral advisor and dissertation chair's publications link in hopes of offering terra firm for any "bobule" hypermobility. Thanks for bearing with me everyone, Matt. http://ciis.academia.edu/AlfonsoMontuori/Papers

Thanks for the thoughtful article Claudia. Having just returned from IAYT's 4th Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research http://www.sytar.org . I'm happy to report about 400 attendees reinforced your many points above. I particularly like # 5 re: build a network and #8 about such conferences for building community and skills. As was said many times over the weekend, Yoga is strong medicine...and Yoga is slow medicine. Take our time, come back to our practice and consciousness unfolds. Great lessons you share!
Gratefully,
matt http://www.drofyoga.com

Thanks for the sanity Dan. Safety in Yoga is my mission as I see many yoga related injuries as an expert witness. Thought you and the readers might enjoy the article I wrote earlier this summer for a local health paper in the Phx Valley on making a decision as to whether one should participate in Hot yoga. http://www.matthewjtaylorinstitute.com/hotyoga.pd...

We saw Gary out here in Phx Nitin...quite a guy. It is hard work and that's ok if fueled by passion. Keep going on yours!
matt