You have to be realistic and assume that treating most major musculoskeletal injuries will be a lengthy trial-and-error process. Every injury is unique and imag

You have to be realistic and assume that treating most major musculoskeletal injuries will be a lengthy trial-and-error process. Every injury is unique and imaging studies or other tests can only give limited clues about what's going on. There are patients in terrible pain whose scans look normal, and there are other patients whose scans indicate serious pathology yet they are pain-free and completely functional. Instead of getting discouraged, keep trying different modalities (except for the pseudo-science BS) until something works. In general a lot of those injuries will eventually heal on their own. So it's easy to fool yourself into believing that a particular treatment was effective even when the real cure was time.