A healthy 30-year-old man experiences worsening abdominal pain for months with no apparent cause. He enters the healthcare system, first with his primary care physician, then many other specialists. He is looking for an answer to his problem, a diagnosis, and a fix, only to discover they don't have one. Yet. But they're going to keep looking. How long is too long to wait? What can be done if diagnostic pathways do not pan out? Where do you draw the line on diagnostic procedures? What would this problem look like from a different perspective? Can his pain generator be discovered? Treated? Cured?
This is our&nbsp;second story in an ongoing series. It illustrates lessons learned from a transformative moment in a PT's career. Like all of our stories, it is drawn from real-world experience.&nbsp;

UBOS, Not Just for Balance

Clinical PT Talks offers physical therapy tips, pointers, how-to, and stories about unique, important, or transformative clinical cases. 

Clinical PT Talks is a mix of Podcast Shorts that provide brief, user-friendly and easily digestible bits of useful information that clarify concepts, illustrate problems to be solved, and offers solutions to issues physical therapists, and physical therapy assistants, deal with every day. Here you will also find longer Stories that highlight a variety of critical processes in dealing with patients in distress in the real world. Some stories need to be told because they can shift our perspective in ways that are useful. Often, this is of equal or greater value than what can be obtained in any other way.