“Mechanotherapy” and why it’s important for clinicians with Karim Khan by BMJ talk medicine published on 2013-10-18T16:40:41Z Karim Khan calls mechanotherapy “the most important fundamental concept that underpins rehabilitation exercises”. Listen to Karim explain that all exercise-based rehabilitation relies on the cells of the injured tissue sensing the exercise stimulus, converting that signal to protein synthesis, and repairing tissue. He explains why ‘rest doesn’t work’ and argues that mechanotherapy has substantial evidence in its favour. The process applies to all body tissues – to injuries / pathology in bone, muscle, tendon and cartilage. Read the review article, which has had over 32,000 full-page views since 2009: Mechanotherapy: how physical therapists’ prescription of exercise promotes tissue repair - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/43/4/247.full Genre medicine Comment by Steven Horwitz 1 Why only physical therapists? 32 years ago I was called crazy, now "mechanotherapy" is "evidence based". So glad I did not wait 30 years to "prescribe" exercise to my patients. They are very happy as well. 2017-10-30T20:52:20Z Comment by ancef bruh why aren't u teaching medicine at UBC 2017-10-10T05:50:36Z Comment by Da-WolfMuzic lit 2017-06-12T07:24:27Z Comment by Sergio Parazza could you put the reference if this article about tennis elbow and 48% drop out? 2016-11-26T18:52:38Z Comment by Sergio Parazza could you put the reference about the article about PRP published in JAMA? 2016-11-26T18:50:25Z Comment by Karim Khan 11 Take home messages here - clinical implications 2014-01-26T16:20:04Z Comment by Karim Khan 11 Figure 1 explained about here...heel drop promoting mechanotherapy 2014-01-26T16:19:23Z