28.05.09
How to waste money
Had a patient this week with summat known as “ITB syndrome“.
She’s a runner and had had the pain for a while and whilst waiting for us she’d been to see a private physio.
Now then. There are certain things you’d expect to see in an ITB presentation. She had ALL of them.
Her hips were mildly rotated inwards, she had weak glutes, her feet flicked slightly outwards as she walked and ran, her adductors were overactive and on and on.
So solution is to change all of this by strengthening up some muscles and looking at gait and so on.
Not a quick fix but it works and is long lasting.
Her private physio mind you. Ooh this annoys me.
He did 8 sessions of ultrasound. And that was it.
Utter waste of time and money for her. Makes me so angry.
Sort the problem out rather than “try to tweak the symptoms” maybe.
Still 8 sessions of US would have netted him around £200-250, nice pay for doing nothing.