I hate those days when I’m struggling to finish my chart notes. Those days when I feel drained and my brain feels like mush. It sucks. Plus, I want to avoid having personal relationships get the dregs of my energy. While I can feel in the flow with patients, I can find getting my notes […]
A Tale of Two Lumberjacks: An Unlikely Practice for More Clinical Energy Read More »
Leading up to any big test like the Physiotherapy Competency Exam (PCE), it’s common to feel some pre-test anxiety and nerves. We worry about forgetting the information we’ve spent weeks memorizing or encountering questions that we won’t know the answer to. Feeling nervous or anxious before an exam is something that most people can identify
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Whether stress comes from the limitations of a clients injury or other psychosocial factors, what specific tools do you provide your patients to help them better cope with stress in their lives? Have you ever wondered if there was something more that could be done with patients as they’re laying at the beginning or end
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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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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
Shrink the Change! Read More »