01/02/2024
I highly recommend Babs.
She’s an excellent specialist pelvic health physio.
She listens and can take women to a high level of rehab, if necessary not just 10 holds for 10 and 10 quick flicks 🙄
Did I also say she’s fascinating, a great communicator and enthusiastic…. 🤩
I am different today… and I will be different tomorrow.
Perhaps this is a post for the physios out there 👩⚕️
I talk about this quite a lot with my patients.
As a physio, I feel it is important that I change. I don’t want to become too comfortable and too firmly rooted in my practice. I have realised this more as the years have gone on.
Let me explain more…
What we know and understand about the human body is changing and evolving all the time. Research is constantly being carried out, which allows us to evolve our thinking, assessments and treatments. This, in turn, should mean better care and treatment for our patients.
I have worked in pelvic health for 15 years now, and how I work and what I do has changed so much. Part of this change has come because I have become more experienced and have more in-depth knowledge.
But possibly the biggest change in me has come because of a combination of these things:
- The evidence/research
- Seeing what helps and what doesn’t help women
- My own journey with my pelvic floor
- Learning from some amazing physios (The Physio Detective RX Physiotherapy Pilates Physiotherapy Cork to name a few)
- Thinking outside the box
- From challenging my beliefs and biases
Some physios out there are firmly rooted in certain concepts, treatment techniques and certain approaches. I describe these physios as having their feet in concrete, and they can’t really move them – or rather, they don’t really want to move them. Even if new concepts, ideas, treatments, research comes out – they still have their feet in their concrete, doing their thing!
What if this is the wrong way to be? 🤔
I think we need to be open to new things as things change. CURRENT research should inform our practice, AND we need to check that we don’t have any biases/likes/dislikes that are feeding us incorrectly.
Do we need to get out of our comfort zone?
If you are a physio out there, what are your thoughts on this?