It was a sweaty August weekend and I was up against a deadline or two.

The date was Saturday, August 11, 1990. Sunday night, I would be driving to Syracuse to get on a train. Those long twin silver lines (yes, a Bob Seger reference) would then take me to Austin, Texas. There was a lot to be accomplished before leaving town. As you can imagine, there were a lot of loose ends to tie up, and many friends to visit.

But there was also one little musical adventure that needed to be finalized. There was a demo tape that needed to be recorded.

I will admit that the last minute chain of events made my last weekend in Canada just a little crazier than I had imagined. But, it also left me with some fantastic memories and a farewell demo tape for the archives.

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The sport activity has to be the problem. That in itself has to be related to the cause of my low back pain, even without a specific mechanism of injury. Oh, it has to be because I [insert here: am not flexible enough, have a weak core, or any number of deficits].

These are the words of countless active patients (and the clinicians that work with them) that suffer from low back pain. Both groups will create magical scenarios for the onset of an episode of low back pain with mechanisms that have little to no chance of actually existing. But they sure sound good, don't they?

Sometimes, it’s the daily stuff that is most important. With that said, let's take a look at the Case Of The Sitting Runner.

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I interrupt your Olympic viewing to bring you this special announcement. Spoiler alert. Oh, wait, NBC might be too transfixed on Michael Phelps or Gabby Douglas or Missy Franklin to pick up on this one anyways.

We were just witnesses to one legendary wow moment of far beyond Olympic proportions. NASA has done it again. At 12:39 am central time, Curiosity landed on Mars and started sending back images from the Red Planet.

The video from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, once Curiosity landed on Mars, was akin to that seen after a gold medal performance.

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One of the greatest problems in health care, including complementary alternative medicine, is the oftentimes arbitrary nature of treatment and the proposed rationale for its usage. There are certainly some magical mechanisms purported to provide some rather intriguing (and often unsubstantiated) treatment effects.

Although clinicians like to use phrases like "the right treatment for the right patient", there is oftentimes a lot of arbitrary clinical decision-making that takes place. Of course, this is a reality when you fail to utilize reliable strategies and clinical decision-making algorithms for assessment and treatment selection - but I digress.

At times, you would think that there are a lot of treatments being thrown at the wall, hoping that something will stick. This is what happens when you use the black box of treatment.

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