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Important V’s Nice
Earlier this week, I heard my mother in-law say the following:“It’s nice to be important, but more important to be nice”As soon as I heard those words, I thought to myself… YES! This is so true. She is a smart cookie 🙂We see this play out in every arena in our lives, and healthcare is certainly not […]
Pain and performance
Let’s consider a high-performance athlete.For an athlete to perform at the highest level, they need to put in the work, they need to train, they need to eat well, they need to sleep, they need to ensure they are focused on a goal, and they need to minimise distractions that may stop them from achieving […]
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 […]
