Manual treatment or manipulation and mobilisation is frequently utilized to manage numerous musculoskeletal problems in different parts of the body by various kinds of health professions. Podiatrists commonly use the methods to deal with the foot. There is not a lot of this in the undergraduate teaching to be a podiatrist so most of the have to know it by commencing post-graduate training. The live chat show, PodChatLive has devoted several shows of there weekly livestreams to the subject of manual therapy to even more instruct Podiatry practitioners on this area and just how the methods might possibly benefit their patients. The topic is contentious and they have had on several guests who are equally pro- and anti- using manual therapies by health professionals. The greater discourse there is the better the end result should be for the patient.

Within the first show that PodChatLive did on manual therapy, the two hosts had on Ted Jedynack and Ian Linane to talk about the subject. They talked about what the differences between mobilisations and manipulations were and just what the possible mechanisms and effect of joint manipulations. The actual chat centred about the problems with does a manipulation reposition the actual bone or joints as opposed to it really being some sort of neurophysiological response. There were additionally an important discourse on the significance with the terminology used in front of the patient in the context of mobilisations and the way that may change final results.

Ted Jedynak is a podiatrist that has specialised completely in Manual Therapies for the foot since 1996. Ted retired from clinical practice in 2012. Ted has been a advisor and instructor of Podiatrists around the world in Manual Therapies since 1996, and as a result of sought after demand, is now working on offering online teaching in the manual therapies. Ian Linane is another podiatrist of over twenty years experience doing work in both his own and in multidisciplinary centers. Ian operates a number of manual therapy lessons concentrating on the supply of high quality, varied, hands-on rehabilitation teaching options for podiatry practitioners.