Anyone replying to this topic, please stick to the topic. Any personal attacks will just be removed. For the record, EBP is a useful adjunct but the methods and conclusions often do not fit what we are, individual beings.
Much of this is done for the purpose of insurance and the demands of insurance companies and government big wigs. It is time that the whole Allied Health profession stciks together and says that EPD, like it always has been part of our professional education, mostly to investigate what we have learnt empirically. Yet as the recent advances in pain management suggest, it is the brain that might cause the pain, and perhaps relieve it. What then for placebo and the difficulty in measuring success consistently. Double blind RCTs are not the only way to assess what is good, for that certainly cannot predict with any certainty what is not.
