Obituary: Geoffrey Maitland MBE

One of the giants of the physiotherapy profession, Geoff Maitland passed away peacefully in Adelaide, on 22 January 2010 after a long period of declining health.

Geoff was a pioneer in the field of manipulative physiotherapy and made a truly outstanding contribution to our knowledge base and practice in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. Underpinning his contribution was his ability to notice things which easily escape attention in the daily interactions with patients, to precisely describe these and to propose relationships between them. A clinician all his life, he put as much store on learning derived when treatments didn’t work, as when they did. Thus not only did Geoff provide the springboard for much research in physiotherapy, he also left a legacy of a rigorous examination and reassessment rubric which transcends whatever treatmentapproaches might be chosen for the patient. Indeed, Geoff exemplified clinical reasoning long before it was formally taught.

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