It sounds good. What do you have your patients do? Preventive stuff is excellent, but what about the ones in pain already?
Walking is the best place to start.
Then stationary or real bicycle.
The best back exercise in the world is a 2 mile walk. Every day, no exceptions.
My wife was treated by a physical therapist that started off specializing with pregnant women - for my wife her hip was out of whack. The guy kept learning and growing - now he treats anybody.
He tests the weak spots by pulling down on my out-stretched arm, and then presses very gently on the various places that hurt. Ankle, hip, rib, neck - wherever. It is so goofy - but it works. He realized that a lot of the problems are related to poor foot support, so he got into making custom orthodics.
Most people don’t believe us. But the ones that give him a try are astounded. One gal was at her wit’s end after a car wreck years ago. Numerous doctors, chiropractors, etc. and the pain would never really go away. She went to our guy and after the first visit she was much better. After a few more she was pain free.
My wife just took an older friend (83) to see if there was anything he could do. Although he warned her ahead of time that the bones are brittle and he might not be able to do too much. He was able to adjust some things, and she was finally able to sleep without her right shoulder hurting her so much. Numerous doctors had tried over the years. Most just said “Well - at 83 you’ll have some aches and pains.”
My daughter was having terrible headaches after bumping into a door. X-rays, several doctors, etc. A couple of months and the headaches were no better. For some reason it didn’t click right away - but finally we thought - “Hey - maybe ‘Bob’ can help!?”
Turns out her jaw was out of whack and causing the headaches. So he sent her to a dental guy that made a mouth guard for her to keep her jaw in place. Slowly getting it refitted to bring the jaw back into alignment. The headaches are now gone (and no need for the guard anymore after months of using it).
He warned us to never tell a regular doctor about it. He had discovered this and researched it with the dental guy and they got a paper published on their results. The American Dental Association or some-such poo-pooed the published paper and filed a lawsuit against him or something - basically told him to never try any of it again - mainly because he wasn’t a dentist I think.
I recently had a head injury. My first call was to him. “Thanks - but you need to go to the ER right away After they check you out and if you’re still sore you can come visit.” He isn’t the type to not recognize the importance of medical doctors in some situations.
He’s pretty young, but years ago he was talking about retiring early and going overseas to live. Then he and his wife had a child. Thank goodness for us - as he decided he better keep his practice until his son is grown!