Author: Michael Smith BSc (Hons) Ost

Do you find it difficult to understand and recall all the terminology regarding test accuracy? You know, the stuff you vaguely remember covering in a Research Methods class at undergraduate level?

Would you struggle to clearly explain the meaning of a term like sensitivity to a patient or fellow-professional?

If the answer to either of these two questions is yes, then this short course will help re-orientate you by taking you through the subject in a way that enables comprehension and recall.

Given the current pandemic, I think it pertinent to use Covid-19 to illustrate the key points!

Here are my thoughts on how I conceptualise lumbo-sacral segment dysfunction (LS) and approach the treatment of this area.

I use the standing one-legged balance test a lot, finding it helps a great deal in the interpretation and prediction of lumbar spine dysfunction. This short article gives a summary of the issues, and I hope to write more on this at some point.

Here’s a short article which tries to integrate or balance how patient’s see things with how we see things, all in the context of developing a structured thought-process.

Here’s a short article – somewhat of a brain-dump, I’m afraid – with key points about the thoracic spine that I’ve developed and found useful over the last twenty or so years.