Dashrath Manjhi was a man who set out to do the impossible. He was a lowly labourer in the isolated Indian town of Gehlaur. Tragically, his wife was badly injured from a mountain fall and because of the mountain terrain, she was unable to access medical services and died. Dashrath decided to change things and […]
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In post-grad education, the course is king. They’re the mainstay of professional development efforts for good reason. But I’ve noticed in my own growth and development that relying purely on courses for professional growth is only part of the answer.
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Clinical work can be draining and we can easily find ourselves feeling exhausted, going through the motions and experiencing burnout. One day bleeds into the next and little excites us in our day.
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Clinical work is demanding. And often times it can feel that we’re on the edge, between feeling good and giving it our all, and feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and burnt out. A number of years ago I was sailing on Lake Okanagan with a friend in a hobie cat sailboat. One of the thrills of this
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Anxiety. It can range from minor annoyance to crippling. And there’s no lack of opportunities to feel anxiety when seeing patients. Whether it’s an assessment that is running behind, a more complex assessment than expected, or a patient who appears to be rapidly losing motivation for treatment. I’m no stranger to anxiety and have found
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Clinical flow. It’s a topic infused in everything I have written about. But sometimes it can feel a little fuzzy as to what it means. Today I dive into the concept of “clinical flow”. I believe that every clinician should improve their capacity to operate in a flow state. In my view, the ability to
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I find that sometimes I get stuck. Not unlike when I was in my teens and my brother and I got our parent’s 1987 Ford Taurus stuck on a forestry service road in the Cascade mountains. No matter how many times we tried to go forward and backwards we were stuck. (I’ll share more of
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I love rafting whitewater. And when I had the chance to become a raft guide in my twenties while working at a rafting company, I took it. I spent countless cold, rainy spring days on the river honing my raft-guiding skills. Outside of the mechanics of controlling a raft, the training was focused on reading
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I’m embarrassed to share this story. It was a long time ago and I chalk it up to an underdeveloped mind. I was 7 or 8 years old and was convinced that a “couple” could mean two or three. Even when I had older siblings correct me, I would become adamant that I was correct.
I have two young boys, and every night we will read a storybook. Our most well-worn book is called “The Gruffalo”. It’s a wonderful little book that recounts the story of a very inventive and clever mouse who has to evade several forest creatures. After assuming he has avoided dangers, he meets upon a Gruffalo
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It’s easy for us as clinicians to feel like we’re falling behind. That constant feeling like we’re not keeping up. And no wonder we feel that way. Just looking at the amount of new information that is created on a daily basis is staggering. According to a Forbes article, there are 2.5 quintillion bytes of
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Discomfort. Self-doubt. Overwhelm. These emotions can be present with us every single day… often to varying degrees with every patient. Unfortunately, these emotions can hound us as physiotherapists. We are constantly dealing with discomfort, uncertainty and even overwhelm in our clinical practice. And part of the problem is that no condition presents the same. Take
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It’s amazing the amount of information that gets thrown at us daily. Social media feeds. Email. News. Plus all of the information we need to sift through as we go about our clinical days. It’s easy to get stuck thinking that better clinical performance comes from consuming more and more information. But here’s the rub…
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As physiotherapists, it’s easy to feel like we need more of something when the work we’re doing doesn’t seem to be getting the results that we want. When we get stuck with our treatments, we think it’s because we lack something. It can feel like there is always another course or certification that will make
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