Talk:Manual therapy

Dab?
Is it worth putting a hatnote to disambiguate manualized psychotherapy (which doesn't seem to have an article)? --zenohockey (talk) 20:33, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

NPOV
This article is one-sided, it reads like an advertisment. Kwiki (talk) 07:10, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * In what way? What do you propose be done to remedy the NPOVness? makeswell (talk) 08:12, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Remedy? First, remove this article from section "Alternative medicine", because it is an obvious untruth. You may/can get a referral for a manual therapy from a doctor/physician, who has corresponding legal permissions and diplomas from a medical school which in turn has the corresponding certification from the national health authority. Moreover, the referral is to a doctor/physiotherapist/etc., who is accepted everywhere and also by corresponding state authorities as a part of the conventional (scientific) medicine. Second, if the author would like to call manual therapy alternative medicine, she/he/it should clearly show the enough distinction from physiotherapy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soling1705 (talk • contribs) 21:54, 23 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Homeopathy is also an alternative medicine that can be prescribed by a physician with the "corresponding legal permissions". Yet it is still an alternative (as opposed to the evidence-based) medicine. 85.217.204.152 (talk) 19:53, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

What is the difference between Bodywork and Manual therapy?
This question has been raising on the Bodywork page, "What is the difference between Bodywork (alternative medicine) and Manual Therapy. Please see Talk:Bodywork (alternative medicine) or, if the link still works, Talk:Bodywork_(alternative_medicine), to leave a comment. Thanks. makeswell (talk) 08:22, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Copy and paste
Where was this copy-pasted from? bobrayner (talk) 23:58, 18 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Do you dispute the sources Bob? Articles are not set in stone, they evolve dependent on new literature. DVMt (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:03, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * For now, I just want to know where you copy & pasted the content from. Are you able to answer? bobrayner (talk) 06:55, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

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Merge work
The article Soft tissue therapy was put up for deletion and the result was to merge it here. I'm going to get that done in the next couple of days. It'll help to flesh this out some. After that's done ill try to get some work done on an overall improvement of the article, it needs attention. Rap Chart Mike (talk) 19:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge complete. Now to go through and clean this thing up and find more citations. It needs some serious TLC. Rap Chart Mike (talk) 13:45, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Citations needed
I moved this here from techniques section until we can cite it: Rap Chart Mike (talk) 16:36, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Sustained Pressure (ischaemic / digital pressure) alleviates hypertonic (tight) areas within muscle and fascia.

Scientific status discrepancies
I know very little about this area, so I may be confused about definitions and boundaries. However, this article seems to indicate all physical manipulation is pseudoscience. This is strikingly different from the impression one gets from reading and. I get the impression that the author of this article cherry-picked specific techniques which are especially lacking in supporting evidence. I have tagged the page for POV issues. To resolve this, this article needs to either Daask (talk) 22:49, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) clearly differentiate the apparently beneficial massage and physical therapy techniques from the pseudoscience manual therapy described in this article,
 * 2) remove cherry-picked critical views and describe manual therapy as a class of techniques without judging their effectiveness as a whole, leaving that to more narrowly defined articles,
 * 3) add specific therapies with positive evidential support to balance the article and clarify that the entirety of manual therapy is not pseudoscience, or
 * 4) edit the above linked pages to clarify that they do not have the empirical support that they claim.

Blank and redirect notice of Neuromuscular therapy
DashDashUnderscore (talk) 20:01, 25 March 2024 (UTC)