ACE Blog
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My Biggest Mistake in Practice
My biggest mistake in practice – Several years ago, I had a patient with posterior hip pain who’d seen as many therapists. I was not just overconfident in telling her that I could help her achieve her goals, but I also wasn’t very honest in hindsight. Each session I was using positive language that she’d be feeling much better afterwards, we just need to keep trying. I also didn’t give her any idea of an ongoing treatment plan or prognosis. I’d hoped that she was […]
Why do you need to know that
Do you take any recreational or performance enhancing substances? These are questions that would sound quite fitting to a police interview room, or maybe an attorney’s line of questioning of a witness. But they’re also on most allied health professional’s intake forms. These are very personal and intrusive questions to ask a stranger. We then […]
What is in your manual therapy cocktail?
As we each progress through our individual careers in manual therapy, we tend to accumulate various skills, tools and approaches. Our professional development is often built on the idea that we need to learn new things and “stack” modalities into our toolkit. What I’ve often seen happen is practitioners ultimately feeling the need to utilise […]
The Power of the Inverse
Unlike many of my peers, I had enjoyed mathematics through high school, particularly algebra and inverse functions. I’ve not continued with any mathematical study since then, but I do consider the usefulness of these exercises in the way of conversation and reasoning almost daily. Consider the common expression; “Something is better than nothing”. I’ve struggled […]
My Back Pain Diary: Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
My favourite day of the week is deadlift day…After a brisk 15-minute walk to the gym, I cut a bee line and went straight to the deadlift platform. I started with two warm-up sets at 60 kg, ten reps each. Then added two more plates for the next set. On my second repetition, I felt […]
Goals and what they cost.
This is the time of year that many of us will be setting our intentions, making plans and committing to new things.New Year’s resolutions and goal setting almost feels like expectations, but why do those goals often NOT get met? In my experience, there are a few things we can do that will help increase […]
