PHYS THER
Vol. 79, No. 6, June 1999, pp. 544-545
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The Future We Want; the Future We Get

Jules M Rothstein, PhD, PT, FAPTA, Editor


Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the full text and any section headings.

Outside the Shinto shrines of Japan there are small trees that seem to be perpetually in bloom, with oddly shaped white flowers made by human hands. The flowers actually are papers containing fortunes that are given in exchange for what we would call an offering. If you take the fortune home, it is supposed to come true. If you leave the fortune behind, it is not supposed to come true. The limbs of the trees are where all of the bad fortunes end up. To ensure a good future, then, all you need is enough money to keep buying new fortunes until you get the tomorrow you want today. Given the current state of physical therapy, a system such as this might be helpful. Suddenly our future does not seem as certain as it did only 1 or 2 years ago.

For several decades, some physical therapists argued—largely unheeded—that our . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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