Is harder easier?

When I first read their notes, I quivered. They had pain everywhere, I may have just coloured their body chart from head to toe and called it Pb 10/10. Complex, irritable, severe constant deep and intermittent pain with P&Ns, numbness and burning radiating pain through both legs and arms. Their past history had chapters and their medications had to be taken in courses and had an instruction manual. They don’t know they’re in Australia, never mind at a physio clinic, and they don’t even know what a physio is or does. Do you know the patient? Ok, it’s a slight exaggeration but I found myself getting really nervous about seeing the “complex patients”. Actually, I was petrified. I had a couple of complex cases this week and was pleased to learn that with a lot of these patients, you can do what seems to be a very soft and short treatment and get some amazing results. I had a patient where I did some light stroking STM and a grade I-II glide on her Tx sp process and got a large drop in her pain and a huge increase in ROM.