Philosophical Basis

If you present with a painful foot to a physiotherapist or a consultant orthopaedic specialist - or probably also to an osteopath or chiropractor - it is likely that you will receive treatment to your foot. You may also receive a plausible explanation as to what is being done and why. If you had a bad fall and damaged your foot or ankle and after treatment you got better, you are likely to conclude that the treatment was what was needed and that it was effective. This may also be true. There is, thus, no philosophical basis of this treatment - it is plain and straightforward. However, suppose that that which was done did not have any effect - a scenario with which your tutors are daily familiar from hearing the stories of their patients - what would then be your conclusion? That the treatment was inappropriate? That the practitioner was incompetent? That you are incurable? That the “ healing process” will take much longer than initially considered? What explanation is offered by the practitioner?

These are the types of problems with which your tutors have dealt for many years - we seem to receive many patients who have been through the failures of treatment and we have as a result of this been able to gather a substantial body of knowledge to be able to identify WHY there are so many failures and WHY these failures occur. We thus refer to our market as the BETE --been everywhere, tried everything!

The explanations are inherent in the earlier remarks about other modalities - namely that for a large number of patients the practitioners are simply applying treatment without first being sure of the origin of the symptoms and often are confusing the symptom with the cause. Frequently the patient is suffering because of some unresolved emotional or spiritual problem - perhaps the death of a loved one or holding a great deal of anger from the past and that it is this which is the true cause. This is certainly so with many cases of neck pain. We have found that it is the failure to realise the TRUE CAUSE of pain that has often lead to the patient being generally dissatisfied with the treatment. In many cases the patient has never been asked if they have ever had an accident. On many occasions there is puzzlement--" but that was 10 years ago"--they have dismissed the probable origin because it was so long ago and thus they see no current connection--WE DO!