How I explain stuff to patients. A thread 🧵
A thread of how I (generally )explain common conditions. I would love some feedback on mine, and how you guys explain these too. Appreciate there are many caveats here.
Includes OA, NSLBP, manual therapy, sciatica & Tendinopathy
How come you can tweak your back shoveling snow and get a 8+week prescription for PT…
But when a woman has a c-section, it’s not even part of the conversation?
Should be the standard.
Why patients don’t stick to home programs:
1) the programs don’t make sense to them
2) there was not connecting the dots to why the exercises will help them
3) no thought was put into picking them (paper handout?!?!)
4) no trust was built between the provider and patient
Early Surgery or Exercise and Education as Treatment of YOUNG adults with a MENISCAL tear?
Short infographic recap of our study in @NEJMEvidence@NEJM
https://t.co/xR7fVp6BXg
FAI Syndrome:
❇️Don’t jump to clinical tests to try and get a diagnosis.
❇️Most tests / all tests have poor specificity (cannot rule pathology in).
❇️Don’t rely just on imaging either.
❇️Don’t forget to assess the ‘person’ not the ‘hip’.
BIG NHS UPDATE!!!
Our pt facing Lumbar Spinal Stenosis (LSS) booklet is now live and ready to download and use!!!
https://t.co/lKOmIEeNpB
Thanks so much to @EmmersonUK@SouthTees
Special contributions from @AnninaBSchmid and @PainCurious
Gentle reminder, as we approach The USA’s *most* food focused holiday: You don’t *need* to earn your food with exercise, and you don’t need to burn off food already consumed with exercise either.
Things that Schools should teach: 🧠
• Being wrong is not a bad thing.
• It's Okay to question what you have been taught.
• Grades aren't as valuable as skills.
• Understanding is more important than memorization.
• Making mistakes is Okay. Learn from your mistakes.
High Intensity Training Is an Effective Modality to Improve Long-Term Disability and Exercise Capacity in Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
https://t.co/MXuclHeGPl
Propsss to @naomiosakaa1 and @Simone_Biles for reminding us the importance of taking care of ourselves!! Grateful we get to watch how they’re gonna keep changing the game for future generations in AND outside their sports
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7️⃣ Red Hawks earn national All-Academic honors through the USTFCCCA, the most our program has ever received!
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