Physical Therapy & Integral Medicine
Tim Sobie, MS, PT, GCFP and Associates, Main: 253-572-4611
“Clinicians and practitioners must be open-minded enough to consider anything that may be of help to our patients…but at the same time be ethically willing and discriminative enough to question everything –even the most sacred of cows in traditional clinical practice.”
Research can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, with an open mind, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge. Most research studies are designed to ask a question that hasn't been answered yet.
Clinical research is a branch of medical science that determines the safety and effectiveness of medications, devices, diagnostic products and treatment regimens intended for human use. These may be used for prevention, treatment, diagnosis or for relieving symptoms of a disease.
- Tim Sobie, PT, research doctoral student
Research can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, with an open mind, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research) are documentation, discovery, interpretation, or the research and development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge. Most research studies are designed to ask a question that hasn't been answered yet.
Clinical research is a branch of medical science that determines the safety and effectiveness of medications, devices, diagnostic products and treatment regimens intended for human use. These may be used for prevention, treatment, diagnosis or for relieving symptoms of a disease.
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) or evidence-based practice (EBP) aims to apply the best available evidence gained from the scientific method to clinical decision making. See http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane-reviews
The one drawback is that “Science can be slow…and life can be short.” Furthermore, there is a central tendency of established disciplines to retain a bias for reinforcing what they already know –thus ceasing the learning process— that is, keeping a particular kind of habituated homeostasis of knowledge bias such that a past-tense knowledge base has now become ingrained as an obstruction to further new learning.
At Alliant, we do subscribe to “Evidence –Based Practice”... but we are also especially alert to “Practice—Based Evidence” as well. And quite often, our direct experience with individual patients in daily presentation does not always agree with the established pool of published clinical research trials or protocols.
Thus, knowledge needs some more ways of new knowing. Look outside your field as well.
The one drawback is that “Science can be slow…and life can be short.” Furthermore, there is a central tendency of established disciplines to retain a bias for reinforcing what they already know –thus ceasing the learning process— that is, keeping a particular kind of habituated homeostasis of knowledge bias such that a past-tense knowledge base has now become ingrained as an obstruction to further new learning.
At Alliant, we do subscribe to “Evidence –Based Practice”... but we are also especially alert to “Practice—Based Evidence” as well. And quite often, our direct experience with individual patients in daily presentation does not always agree with the established pool of published clinical research trials or protocols.
Thus, knowledge needs some more ways of new knowing. Look outside your field as well.
Coming in 2012: The Alliant Spine Project ( ASP!): Challenging the Notion of Core Stabilization in Low Back Pain.
While scientific research relies on the competent application of the scientific method, its creative foundational and organic basis ultimately relies on the harnessing of human curiosity, creativity, and innovation. And finally, empirical research retains its way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience.
At Alliant, we believe in direct experience as the best way of beginning your new knowing. We invite you to experience the phenomenological effects of The Feldenkrais Method® first hand.
While scientific research relies on the competent application of the scientific method, its creative foundational and organic basis ultimately relies on the harnessing of human curiosity, creativity, and innovation. And finally, empirical research retains its way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience.
At Alliant, we believe in direct experience as the best way of beginning your new knowing. We invite you to experience the phenomenological effects of The Feldenkrais Method® first hand.
