Re-visiting Waddels award winning paper. It's like: 'Well done! Look everybody, here's a 🏆. As you were.'
🔗https://t.co/MnkWy8kIjB
A couple of quotes from 1987(!), still in orbit 👇👇
My running injury prevention guide from 2007! I stand by everything in here. Note the section on myths and the section on preventing injuries. Nothing has really changed and its amazing that we still see the need to keep busting these myths
Patient with no previous LEFT knee pain went for an x-ray of his painful RIGHT knee. Mistakenly xrayed LEFT knee, comes back with severe OA changes, RIGHT knee then xrayed showing minimal changes. Now has LEFT knee pain and awaiting orthopaedic opinion. The power of imaging. 🤪
THREAD-CAN EXERCISE ⬇️ PAIN?
✅Sedentary behaviour = pro-inflammatory
✅Regular exercise = anti-inflammatory
👉Short term ⬆️ in pain can be "normal" with exercise if very sedentary (Counsel pts on this)
👉Change takes time!
https://t.co/nu9t9biD1i
Ever time I see this video it reminds me of ortho surgeons in my career who have suggested that we are being “too aggressive” with exercise after TKA because the patient is a bit sore? Just saying.
Michael Jordan brings like seven million people together for two hours every Sunday night just to calmly destroy guys he didn't like two decades ago. This is the television event of the century.
Conversation with a young patient:
Pt: So health insurance isn’t even a real business, is it?
Me: How so?
Pt: They don’t really DO or make anything.
Me: ...
Pt: They take money from people, and then make money by not giving it back. That’s just ... stealing.
Me: ...