In the next couple of days, I’ll be hosting the next Physio CPD Revolution. It will be our 1stbirthday and I hope to be celebrating in the usual way of drinking anxiety inhibiting beverages and engaging in (often deep) discussion about alternative topics in physiotherapy such as philosophy and anthropology rather than the usual [...]
Over the last 2 days I have been plunged into one of many interesting debates on the twittersphere. I admit these days I prefer to be a bit more of a silent observer as I find your life can flash before your eyes when you become overly drawn in to social media conversations. In all [...]
It's time for another guest post on the naked physio. On twitter back in June this year I read an interesting thread on types of leg and arm pain. I enjoyed the thread so much I reached out to the physio and asked him to write a blog. He was able to go one step [...]
A diversist? That’s not even a word! Yes, diversist is indeed not a word. It is a made-up word, a word none the less that could have meaning. For example: ‘the condition of having or being composed of differing elements’ or ‘Diverse people or things are very different from each other’. It might [...]
It was quite the honour to be asked by the Physio First team in the UK to write an article for their In Touch magazine. To have one of my blogposts resonate with a major physio organisation back in my home country was something very special. I was fortunate to have completed a sports and [...]
I frequently joke with many of my colleagues that I’m an OT in a physio’s body. Most of my work in pain management involves supporting people, increasing self-efficacy, addressing concerns or worries about misconceptions of fragility of the body and of course getting people moving. So, yeah I’m a physio and I often question what [...]
Sometimes I wonder why I just don’t ask a simple question such as, "what are safety behaviours?" Oh no, not me I like to ask deeper questions! So, this blog is kind of an opinion piece but more ramblings about reading and interpretation. Apologies in advance if I go off track. Writing is thinking and [...]
It's been a while since I released a 31 days project video. I've been reading a lot of papers back from the 80s and seeing that actually not a lot has changed in terms of pain management. One pioneering individual (he is for me) is Bill Fordyce. He identified how learning and experiences influenced the occurrence [...]
Whole of community pain health education. for back pain. Why does first-line care get almost no attention and what exactly are we waiting for? I read with intrigue and interest Lorimer’s editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (G. L. Moseley, 2018). I have huge respect for the man who has effectively flipped the traditionalist healthcare [...]
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is commonly associated with an injury of the extremities. In CRPS type I, the most common is a fracture of the hand or foot complex. In the upper limb (which has a higher prevalence of CRPS) an uncomplicated radial fracture would normally take around 6-8 weeks to heal (if no [...]
