As my time as a Bohemian Traveller is coming to a close I have been looking at job advertisements and other physiotherapy related subjects. Thus I heard of Robin McKenzies death. He is the brain behind the McKenzie method, my favourite method for managing musculoskeletal disorders. Why?

It emphasizes the use of reliable and valid assessment methods to determine treatment

It promotes therapist independence for patients and treats patients as acitve participants vs receivers in therapy.

Rather than relying on overly complicated concepts it has a non-nonsense test, do and test again approach.

It does not pretend to know the answers to life the universe and everything, but rather encourages research.

I have never met Robin McKenzie, but considering the underlying principles of the foundation he founded, I think he was a cool dude.

Also he first got the idea of directional preference because he "forgot" he had a patient in the treatment room.

I wish my forgetfulness would be that productive.