Mind, body and medicine: the illusion of separation

> “There is in the human mind a sufficiently strong propensity not only to make divisions in knowledge where there are none in nature, and then to impose the divisions on nature, making the reality thus comfortable to the idea, but to go further, and to convert the generalisations made from observations into positive entities, permitting for the future these artificial creations to tyrannise over the understanding. ”1 The integrated nature of sports medicine has been a mainstay of good clinical practice for many years. The dichotomy between clinical disciplines and siloed working have given way to an interdisciplinary team focused around athlete health and sports performance. Similarly, the apparent dichotomous approach to holistic patient care is changing. The separation between the mental, physical …