This guide has everything you need to know about how the diaphragm and pelvic floor may impact your patient’s movement and symptoms in the real world. So if you want to: Look at the body as a whole without getting overwhelmed Understand how the diaphragm and pelvic floor can impact the shoulder and hip …
Thanks to Katie for coming onto the podcast, Katie is a soft tissue therapist working down in Cornwall. Can you tell us a little bit more about yourself Katie? Thanks Shane, my name is Katie. I’m predominantly a massage therapist with the new title of soft tissue therapist as i’ve upskilled to a level 5 …
Thanks John for coming onto the podcast, John is a physiotherapist in Ireland – is it Cavan where you’re working John? Yeah we have a practice in Ballyconnell just on the edge of the border in county cavan. And tell us a little bit more about yourself before you came onto the mentorship? Yeah so …
I got asked recently, “what’s my biggest advice to young therapists wanting to work with professional sports athletes?”… If you’d asked me this question 4-5 years ago, you would have got a very different answer. Here are my top 7 tips that I now know to be true… 1. Feeling is believing – you need …
In the late 1940s, the United States air force had a serious problem… …its pilots could not keep control of their planes. Although this was the dawn of jet-powered aviation… And the planes were faster and more complicated to fly… the problems were so frequent and involved so many different aircraft… that the air force …
Where do you start with a complex back pain patient if you can’t use your hands? Do you feel confident that you could ease their pain in the first couple of sessions? Do you feel confident in what exercises they would need and how they would progress? Not 100% sure? I’ll be honest with you… …
You have a structure in place for your face to face appointments, specifically your objective assessment. But for online, it’s different. What do you ask them during the session? What do you get them to do? How can you replicate this to relieve their pain without using your hands? It’s easy to get overwhelmed via …
Do you ever get to the end of the objective assessment and you’ve no clue where to start with your patient? You’re not even sure if you are on the right track? Hard to admit but it happens… A good question to ask your patient in this scenario is this: “What would progress look like …
Working in professional sport my whole career while also building a cash-pay private practice, there really is no room for errors or mistakes… You need to get results quickly and safely. That’s why I like to build safety nets into my rehab programs… …so I know it’s safe for patients to progress quickly but more …
I’ve got a little secret for you… Most therapists have blinker vision on the pathology only. Focusing on pathology focuses the therapist’s minds on things that really a lot of the time are out of our control… Our attention is always on something that is useful or useless. What caused this pathology in the first …