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When you find what works, UPSIZE it
As a health practitioner, we often wear many hats.Some days we are a Clinician, dealing with patients and their issues. Some days we are a business owner, managing staff, ordering stock or solving problems.Some days we are a Marketer, deploying advertising, creating content, spruiking our services.And some days we are just confused… Wondering what to do […]
That’s a fact…
Recently, I was told that course content and discussion should be solely factual, and that opinion should not be used as it may bias discussion… The fact is… much of what we know about pain and manual therapy is not necessarily fact but rather evolving hypotheses. It is the discussion that allows us to question […]
Are you focusing on the wrong thing?
Do you ask questions like, how is your pain today? How has your pain been over the last week? What is the level of pain you are feeling at the moment? Tell me more about your pain… Directing attentional focus to the pain may not be helpful. Now don’t get me wrong, I know pain may […]
Mindful success
I was thinking the other day about something I quite often say in the classroom.“Success breeds success”.It’s true that when we succeed at something, we are more likely to try it again and ultimately gain even more success. Though, on reflection, I realised that there is more to this.It is in fact, MINDFUL success that […]
Feedback
A very important but overlooked skill… Feedback is what I am referring to. I believe that both giving and receiving feedback is a skill, and that skill takes practice. The word itself might increase anxiety levels when someone says “let me give you some feedback”, it might automatically put you on the defensive. However, the implications […]
The Technician and clinician
When teaching health practitioners new ways of treating or introducing new ways to work with patients, I’m often met with the following statement…“But my patients expect me to do XYZ, I don’t think they will be open to me working in that way”. It’s true, updating, changing, or shifting the way in which you manage […]
