Olina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research focuses, in part, on

Olina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research focuses, in part, on the development of cancer prevention and intervention programs to improve Latino health. Krista M. Perreira is an associate professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studies the well-being of immigrant youth and inter-relationships between migration, health, and social policy. Her immigration research has been supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and the order AZD-8835 Foundation for Child Development.
EditorialA lasting legacyDan VaughnGrand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA The Scottish poet, Thomas Campbell, once said, `To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die’. In that case, Robin McKenzie will live forever. I never had the opportunity to meet Robin, although I can definitively say that he impacted my professional career in profound ways. I have no doubt that there are many others who would share my sentiment. I’ve watched the career paths of numerous colleagues who modified, or completely overhauled, their approach to managing patients as a result of how Robin influenced them. Countless others among us, including myself, have added the tools Robin gave us, to our repertoire of interventions. I use and teach the principles of repeated motion testing, centralization, and directional preference as components of essentially every examination I do on a patient with spinal pain. Many amongst us apply those as readily to patients with extremity problems as well. When I consider the breadth of Robin’s influence, it boggles my mind. When I graduated from physical therapy school in 1977, the standard for all low back pain patients was the incontrovertible Williams’ flexion exercise routine. You just did them with, as I recall, no questions asked and sadly with no thought given. It just made sense that if the disc was the source of the pain and was herniated posteriorly we had to give it more room. As they say, that was a `no-brainer’. Looking back on those days, I imagine that some of my patients improved as a result of my exercise prescriptions, but many more probably improved in spite of the instructions I offered; I have probably blocked out the memories of those who got worse. In the early 1980s, I had a chance to take my first `McKenzie course’. By that time I am sure I was frustrated with the repeated failures associated with the Williams’ routine. I can only imagine that Robin must have felt similar pangs in his own specialty practice in the decades preceding my early practice years. What I heard at that conference confounded all that I had learned by then about exercise prescriptions for low back pain. This was going to change everything. At that time, I was working in my brother’s private physical therapy practice and he had a referring orthopedic surgeon that was one of the significant `lifelines’ to his practice’s success. Upon return from the McKenzie conference, I took it upon ARA290 web myself to give one of that doctor’s patients an extension-biased treatment after discerning that he had a directional preference for that intervention. The orthopedist, fond of giving very explicit instructions for his patients, had prescribed [thoughtlessly, I’m sure] the standard of the day, Williams’ routine. Needless to say, he did not take kindly to the prescription I offered his patient and he subsequently stopped sending patients to the practice. I am confident that his cessation of referrals wa.Olina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research focuses, in part, on the development of cancer prevention and intervention programs to improve Latino health. Krista M. Perreira is an associate professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studies the well-being of immigrant youth and inter-relationships between migration, health, and social policy. Her immigration research has been supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and the Foundation for Child Development.
EditorialA lasting legacyDan VaughnGrand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA The Scottish poet, Thomas Campbell, once said, `To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die’. In that case, Robin McKenzie will live forever. I never had the opportunity to meet Robin, although I can definitively say that he impacted my professional career in profound ways. I have no doubt that there are many others who would share my sentiment. I’ve watched the career paths of numerous colleagues who modified, or completely overhauled, their approach to managing patients as a result of how Robin influenced them. Countless others among us, including myself, have added the tools Robin gave us, to our repertoire of interventions. I use and teach the principles of repeated motion testing, centralization, and directional preference as components of essentially every examination I do on a patient with spinal pain. Many amongst us apply those as readily to patients with extremity problems as well. When I consider the breadth of Robin’s influence, it boggles my mind. When I graduated from physical therapy school in 1977, the standard for all low back pain patients was the incontrovertible Williams’ flexion exercise routine. You just did them with, as I recall, no questions asked and sadly with no thought given. It just made sense that if the disc was the source of the pain and was herniated posteriorly we had to give it more room. As they say, that was a `no-brainer’. Looking back on those days, I imagine that some of my patients improved as a result of my exercise prescriptions, but many more probably improved in spite of the instructions I offered; I have probably blocked out the memories of those who got worse. In the early 1980s, I had a chance to take my first `McKenzie course’. By that time I am sure I was frustrated with the repeated failures associated with the Williams’ routine. I can only imagine that Robin must have felt similar pangs in his own specialty practice in the decades preceding my early practice years. What I heard at that conference confounded all that I had learned by then about exercise prescriptions for low back pain. This was going to change everything. At that time, I was working in my brother’s private physical therapy practice and he had a referring orthopedic surgeon that was one of the significant `lifelines’ to his practice’s success. Upon return from the McKenzie conference, I took it upon myself to give one of that doctor’s patients an extension-biased treatment after discerning that he had a directional preference for that intervention. The orthopedist, fond of giving very explicit instructions for his patients, had prescribed [thoughtlessly, I’m sure] the standard of the day, Williams’ routine. Needless to say, he did not take kindly to the prescription I offered his patient and he subsequently stopped sending patients to the practice. I am confident that his cessation of referrals wa.