PT Students Cure Chronic Shoulder Pain Complaints in 8 Patients, Present Findings, and Get Grilled for What They Did Not Do

As professionals, how do we know what to do for any given patient problem? We of course are educated in physical therapy schools, experience increasing responsibility as interns, pass many tests, including licensure exams, and then are released into the world to ply our skills as best we can. We know to survey the literature to help answer our questions, including use of the PICO template to aid this process. And we know to expect to have many questions. But what do we do when the scientific literature does not provide answers? Join me in this podcast episode as I discuss this issue in context to what I observed when teaching students and the surprising reactions their efforts produced.