Professional responsibility means responding professionally Response to comment by Jull et al

It is an exciting but challenging era when physiotherapy has matured to the point where we are able to debate issues of great significance to the profession (see also Malone 2002). Unfortunately, the “debate” about cervical manipulation now risks being argued around interpretation of fine detail of fact rather than around the real issues concerning cervical manipulation. This lends emotion rather than measured argument to the debate. Jull et al have not reflected on the major issues as we would have hoped; rather, they have chosen to cloud our discussion with the very strategies they contend we have employed, ie selective use of literature and misrepresentation of results. More importantly, they appear to have misunderstood the entire point of our paper