Why do animals get disease but people get sick?
I am reading a book called “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat” written by the late Oliver Sacks. It is inspirational. He is Inspirational. He has now been added to my list of people I would invite to a dinner party if I had the opportunity. Oliver Sacks was a Physician, an […]
Who is the most experienced physiotherapist you know?
Why did you decide to become a physiotherapist? For me, it was because throughout my teenage years, I experienced injury upon injury. Playing a range of different sports from Soccer, to Camogie, to rugby, to rowing and more. From seeing physiotherapist after physiotherapist, I saw how much they helped people like me. I saw it […]
My Take on the Biopsychosocial Model
We have heard so much about the Biopsychosocial model in the physio world over the last few years. In my Undergraduate Physiotherapy Program, we were taught a bit of a mixture of both the Postural Structural and Biomechanical, and the Biopsychosocial models. A mixture of both, but probably leaning toward the Biopsychosocial model- at least […]
Differences
Differences. A cause for celebration or tribulation? People are different. People are unique. It’s what makes us interesting. It’s what makes us special. It’s what makes the world go round. Without differences in individuals, we wouldn’t have doctors and nurses and window cleaners and mechanics. It’s what gives us other cultures to learn from, different […]
Guilt
I wasn’t sure about what I wanted to talk about this week. I didn’t have it perfectly planned. While trying to process my thoughts, I found it difficult without actually sitting down and typing. I thought back to the snowball effect that generally tends to happen when I do begin to type. So what do […]
Pressure to Conform
Do you ever feel the pressure to conform, to fit in, to do things simply because you are a physiotherapist? Should this be the way? Do we need to look a certain way, or play a particular sport to be a good physiotherapist? Do we need to have been injured previously to understand the impact […]
Listening.
How often do we stop and listen? To ourselves? To each other? To the world? Just listen. When I stop to listen now, I can hear the water running through the pipes. I can hear the typing of the keyboard. Occasionally I can hear a dog bark outside. If I listen very closely, I can […]
What is your biggest fear?
Fear. It’s a strange thing. It almost always motivates us to change behaviour. At times it pushes us to run. At times it paralyses us. As humans we all experience fear at different points in our lives over different things. What is it for you? Is it failing your client? Is it making your pain […]
Dani Gets Her Groove Back
I was stuck in a rut. Only four years out from college and I was somewhat questioning what I was doing. I wasn’t enjoying my days work. I didn’t feel like I was helping people in the way I had previously hoped. A mere four years and I had already lost my flare. Did I […]
What does physiotherapy mean to you?
This is a question I have always struggled to answer. What exactly is physiotherapy? And what does it mean to you? To the client in front of you it will mean something completely different to what it means to you. Potentially equally as fulfilling, but with complete different reasons. To the physio in the next […]