‘Dear Clinician’ – PDF
A number of clinicians have asked if they can use my ‘Dear Clinician’ letter in their teaching. In order to support this...
Bénéficier au mieux de la kinésithérapie
My ‘Making the Most of Physiotherapy’ leaflet has been kindly translated into French by Clément Noel, and available here or on...
‘Pain is more complex than I thought’ – PDF
This pdf has been created by a person living with persistent pain. It explains my thoughts on how complex persistent pain can be, and...
Evidence Based Practice: A patient’s journey
I have been hesitant to fully explain the beginning of my persistent pain journey. Any re-telling of my story will inevitably be one-sided...
Effecting change beyond the clinic door
Most of my life living with persistent pain is spent beyond the clinic door. For healthcare to be truly effective for me it must involve...
A patient’s perspective on clinical governance
My view as a physiotherapy patient is that good clinical governance is vital to ensure quality, consistency and safety of physiotherapy...
Musings about my experience of the BioPsychoSocial model in healthcare
I’m a relative newbie to Twitter and have been reading with interest the posts about the BioPsychoSocial model and its use in healthcare....
A patient’s view of core stability exercise
Following my manual handling accident in 2008, core stability exercises were prescribed for me by a number of consultants and...
Evidence Based Practice: A patient’s thoughts
My persistent pain story began in the summer of 2008, and since then I have been treated by many clinicians within a system of Evidence...
Therapeutic alliance – a patient’s thoughts
I cannot over-emphasise how important it is to me as a persistent pain patient to have a strong, supportive therapeutic alliance, with all...
