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Understand How to Use an IMC When Treating MVA/MVC Patients in Alberta

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Recently ignitephysio podcast hosts Andrew Koppejan and Maxi Miciak sat down with physiotherapists Jeff Begg and Simon Cooke, along with Julie Chartrand, medical claims advisor with Peace Hills Insurance, across two interviews (see here and here) to chat about MVA regulations in Alberta and common challenges that come with managing MVA patients. This article is part of a […]

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Using Metaphors & Analogies to Improve Patient Education in Physiotherapy

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If there’s one thing that is the bedrock in our care of patients as physiotherapists it is patient education. We educate our patients about a lot of things. Here’s just a short list: patient’s condition our assessment findings treatment plan anatomy and physiology specific treatments and their rationale referral to another healthcare provider diagnostic report

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Physiotherapy Practice Abroad and in Canada: The Cultural Differences

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I know as physiotherapists, we love to travel. I’m not sure what it is, but being immersed in other cultures helps us see the world differently. And if we look at those cultures, they’re always evolving. Just look at how much North American culture has changed over the past forty years. Moving from another country

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Deciphering Physiotherapist Charting Abbreviations: Our Top 40 PT Acronyms

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What’s With Physiotherapist Abbreviations? If you ask most physiotherapists, no matter if they work publically, privately, in home care or in the community, they will tell you that the part they love most about their jobs is the patient interaction. But, if you ask them the worst part of their jobs, for most it’ll be

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Finding Freud in Physiotherapy-Part 3

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Reconsidering Boundaries Moves Us Forward (Read Part 1 & Part 2 here) Are physiotherapists doing psychotherapy? Applying Frank and Frank’s descriptions, I say yes, physiotherapy treatment can be psychotherapeutic. In my view, psychotherapy is not solely contingent upon the treatment of psychological diagnoses; rather, it is a form of therapy that addresses the psychological factors of a person’s experience. Of

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Finding Freud in Physiotherapy-Part 2

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Contextual Theory –An Unexpected Ally Although physiotherapy supports models that acknowledge psychological elements of rehabilitation, it may be surprising that support also comes from psychiatry. American psychiatrists Jerome and Julia Frank broadened the definition of psychotherapy by arguing that it is the healing relationship between a healing agent (therapist) and a sufferer (patient).1 The sufferer, wanting to alleviate disability,

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Getting Through The Dip

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When Things Get Tough Whenever I need a little perspective, I’ll often look to find a good book and a good one I did find. It’s a little gem by Seth Godin called “The Dip”. It doesn’t break a 100 pages, but it’s message (as is often the case with Godin’s books) is an insightful one. He

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Shrink the Change!

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In my last blog entry I talked about the reality that self-control (the much needed resource for change behaviour) is a limited resource. And so what we as therapists can perceive in our patients as resistance, laziness or discontent can really be a lack of the much needed energy to engage in change behaviour. The

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