Abstract
An account is given of how a blind physiotherapist has learned to make use of his non-visual senses for picking up information about his patients as he meets them for the first time. It is argued that the experienced practitioner can supplement the purely factual data concerning the patient's physical condition by taking notice of subtle clues conveyed unconsciously about attitudes, feelings and personality characteristics as revealed through touch, smell and hearing.
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