HCP, My healthcare experience

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Cognitive Functional Therapy changed my life!

Why do some physiotherapists follow a Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT) approach when treating chronic pain conditions?  What does...

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HCP, My healthcare experience

My pain journey in brief

10 years ago, I suffered a life changing injury in a manual handling incident. In simple terms I herniated a disc and my sciatic nerve root...

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HCP, Other thoughts for HCPs

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Making physiotherapy even better post COVID-19

These are my patient thoughts on how physiotherapy practices might change and improve post COVID-19. Unusually for me, but then everything...

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‘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...

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HCP, HCP patient resouces

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...

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HCP, HCP patient resouces, HCP training resources

‘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...

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HCP, My healthcare experience

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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...

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HCP, My healthcare experience

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...

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HCP, Other thoughts for HCPs

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...

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HCP, Other thoughts for HCPs

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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....

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