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21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Physiotherapy is more than you probably know
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Please don't explain pain to me
December 02, 2022 08:45 - 39 minutes - 29.4 MBNeen suffers from chronic pain due to mixed connective tissue disease, with features of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma and myositis. In this discussion, she talks about some of her frustrations when seeking help from physiotherapists. Neen feels that Explain Pain and Pain Neuroscience Education type approaches have been harmful, rather than helpful, to her and others with secondary pain. She calls on physiotherapists to carefully listen to their patients and to seriously consider...
Pain and nociception with Asaf Weisman
October 07, 2022 18:10 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBAsaf Weisman is a clinical physiotherapist currently doing a PhD in artificial intelligence and computer vision. He has a particular interest in nociception and pain theory. Evie and Asaf had this discussion following an interview with Lorimer Moseley by Jack Chew on The Physio Matters Podcast. You can watch that interview here https://youtu.be/xUBA7qQJ6vk Asaf responds to some points made by Lorimer in the TPMP interview, and we discuss more broadly the topics of nociception, pain science...
Evil, Good, Empathy & Rationality - with Jo Baxter
July 08, 2022 18:39 - 34 minutes - 26.5 MBJo Baxter is a physiotherapist and member of the "Physios Giving Well" community - a group of physios who donate monthly to GiveWell's top rated, most effective and evidence-based charities. As a community Physios Giving Well aims to raise money for *effective* charities and to spread the idea of Effective Altruism in the healthcare community. Twitter: @onlinephysios About Physios Giving Well: https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/
Breaking and mending with Sue Julians
June 29, 2022 06:56 - 45 minutes - 35 MBSue Julians is physiotherapist who has written a book about her experiences of Covid lockdown and the effects it had on her business and family. Sue is Director and Practice Principal at Barbican Physio in London. In this interview we discuss Why and how she wrote her book Her experiences of using twitter The positives and negatives of social media The effect of lockdown on her business, family and mental health Writing as catharsis The effect of lockdowns on her own and others' child...
High Impact Medicine with Dr. Akhil Bansal
June 20, 2022 18:43 - 29 minutes - 22.1 MBDr. Akhil Bansal is a doctor who set up the effective altruism-inspired organisation "High Impact Medicine" (https://www.highimpactmedicine.org/). Their aim is "bringing together medics who want to have a wide reaching positive impact". He is currently working as a research analyst for Charity Entrepreneurship. In this interview we discuss The concept of Effective Altruism and how this may resonate with healthcare providers such as doctors and physiotherapists Charitable giving in genera...
Tom Jesson
June 16, 2022 18:05 - 32 minutes - 24.8 MBTom Jesson is the author of a popular book "Sciatica", and is currently finishing work on his second book "Cauda Equina Syndrome" with co-author Rob Tyer. In this interview, we don't talk about sciatica or cauda equina syndrome.
Bill Taylor on Physios Giving Well
June 15, 2022 07:41 - 15 minutes - 11.7 MBPhysios Giving Well is a community of physios who donate to GiveWell's Maximum Impact Fund and promote the principles of Effective Altruism. JOIN US! Read about our project here https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/ See also: givewell.org effectivealtruism.org https://physiosonline.co.uk/2022/05/why-were-giving-well/
High Impact Athletes with pro tennis player, Marcus Daniell
May 31, 2022 16:34 - 24 minutes - 18.3 MBMarcus Daniell is a professional tennis player and Olympic medallist, whose organisation "High Impact Athletes" connects athletes with the most effective, evidence-based charities in the world In this chat Evie & Marcus discuss the topic of Effective Altruism and the inspiration behind Marcus's decision to set up High Impact Athletes. Also available as Vodcast at https://youtu.be/rVNDbT_kJSA 1:20 How Marcus got involved with the effective altruism movement "It just blew my mind how much ...
A conversation about pain with Lee Schneider
April 12, 2022 10:29 - 1 hour - 48 MBLee Schneider is a PhD candidate studying pain and predictive processing at the University of Notre Dame in Perth, Australia. This conversation was inspired by my earlier chat with Asaf Weisman, in one of the previous podcasts or available to view here https://youtu.be/j_0di-4Vaw4. In this discussion, we talk about Lee's agreements and disagreements with Asaf's perspective, the debate about whether pain is a sensation or a perception, the predictive processing model, and many other top...
"Pain is not a thing" with Asaf Weisman
March 31, 2022 18:39 - 59 minutes - 43.5 MBEvie from PhysiosOnline speaks with Asaf Weisman, pain researcher at Tel-Aviv University. We discuss some of Asaf's reflections around the subject of pain and pain science, including: Pain is not a thing Pain is a sensation, not a perception The brain as an "overstressed blue-collar worker" Is pain neuroscience education (PNE) based on a fairytale His study finding that a majority of people do not like being told "Explain Pain" material PNE is metaphysical conjectures, not truth The c...
Politics and Healthcare (with Dr. Rosi Sexton)
September 24, 2021 06:49 - 45 minutes - 33.9 MBEvie from PhysiosOnline talks with Dr. Rosemary Sexton. Rosi is an osteopath and Green Party councillor. She has been a professional MMA fighter, and was the first woman in the UK to fight in the UFC. She is also mathematician having studied maths at Cambridge and received her PhD from Manchester University. Rosi and Evie connected on twitter over a thread discussing how politics might influence healthcare professionals' decision-making and treatment approaches. In this interview, we di...
Physiotherapy in India - Brain Drain and other Challenges
July 29, 2021 20:48 - 50 minutes - 37.9 MBAshish Dev Gera is a physiotherapist in the Doon Valley in India. In this discussion, he shares his perspective on the challenges facing his profession in India. We talk about - The problem of "Brain Drain" as Ashish sees it, where Indian physiotherapists are choosing to go abroad for better professional opportunities - The hierarchical system encountered by physiotherapists in India - Underrepresentation of Indian physiotherapists at international conferences, and the possible reasons f...
Concussion
June 15, 2021 19:08 - 26 minutes - 20 MBEvie talks with Donna Sanderson-Hull - Senior Consultant Sports Medicine Physiotherapist at Blue Sky A concussion is a form of brain injury causing a temporary disturbance of brain function. Concussions can occur not only with bumps, hits or blows to the head, but elsewhere on the body, which causes the brain to move back and forth in the skull. There are 22 different signs of concussion and it is an old misconception is that someone generally has to be knocked out to be diagnosed with a c...
Sexual dysfunction following cancer - the role of physiotherapists
June 08, 2021 18:16 - 19 minutes - 14.4 MBPelvic health specialist physiotherapist Debbie Dillon talks about her work with patients who are experiencing sexual dysfunction following treatment of gynaecological and prostate cancer. Many survivors of gynaecological cancers experience long-term effects on their pelvic health including effects on continence and sexual function, due to treatments such as surgery and radiotherapy. Understandably, while undergoing cancer treatment, patients and clinicians are very much focused on the c...
Making Online Content - Is it worth the effort? With Jack March.
June 03, 2021 10:48 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MBEvie talks to Jack March from rheumatology.physio and the PhysioMatters Podcast about producing online learning materials, and how this type of content can be funded. Jack talks about his work producing learning materials on his own site rheumatology.physio, where he has tried various payment models. He talks about the challenges of earning an income for his work, while at the same time not wanting to limit access to learning materials to those who may not be able to afford it. 05.00: The...
Bone Stress Injuries
May 19, 2021 18:14 - 28 minutes - 23 MBDr James Noake is a consultant in sport, exercise and musculoskeletal medicine. In this conversation he talks about the diagnosis and management of bone stress injuries. We discuss: What a bone stress response is, and how it differs from an acute fracture The risk factors for developing bone stress injuries How we as clinicians can identify possible bone stress injuries by carefully listening to the patient's history Returning to sport safely after injury You can book an online ap...
What's going on with Long Covid?
April 27, 2021 13:46 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBA conversation with physiotherapist David Poulter and Pain Consultant Dr. Deepak Ravindran, consultant in Pain Medicine and lead for the Berkshire LongCovid Integrated Service (BLIS) in Reading, UK. We discuss: -The kinds of symptoms and problems people are experiencing when they present to the Long Covid clinic -The finding that the vast majority - about 90% - of people with Long Covid are those who have had so-called "mild" disease, where they were not hospitalised. -Theories of the me...
Understanding and treating pelvic pain in men
April 23, 2021 18:40 - 31 minutes - 29.4 MBBlogpost and video: physiosonline.co.uk/2021/04/understanding-and-treating-pelvic-pain-in-men/ Karl Monahan is a clinician with a special interest in treating male pelvic pain. After experiencing chronic debilitating pelvic pain and managing to successfully treat it himself, he set out to help other men to overcome their pelvic pain. In addition to running a specialised male pelvic pain clinic in London, Karl also hosts a series of webinars featuring various experts and people with lived ...
Recognising abuse and protecting children in gymnastics and the performing arts
April 23, 2021 18:31 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBIn recent years high-profile scandals have revealed that children in gymnastics and ther performing arts are particularly vulnerable to abuse by coaches and others. In this discussion, physiotherapists Emma Stevenson and Bill Taylor talk about how they think we as physiotherapists can advocate for and protect children and contribute to a safe environment for them. Bill Taylor is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist and consultant physiotherapist to the Scottish Ballet. He has exten...
Pelvic Pain in Men
April 18, 2021 05:58 - 18 minutes - 14.8 MBIn this podcast episode, pelvic health specialist Bill Taylor and Evie from PhysiosOnline talks about pelvic pain in men and how it can be helped. Pelvic pain in men is referred to by many different names. Most often men will have received a diagnosis of “prostatis”, but may also heard a variety of other terms including prostadynia, coccydynia, pudendal neuralgia, levator ani syndome and proctalgia fugax. Blogpost: https://physiosonline.co.uk/2021/04/pelvic-pain-in-men/ Bill Taylor: https...
Physio for Dancers - Bill Taylor and Liz Bayley
April 14, 2021 20:37 - 35 minutes - 26.8 MBPhysiosOnline members Bill Taylor and Liz Bayley discuss their experiences related to physiotherapy in the world of dance and performance. Bill Taylor is Consultant Physiotherapist for the Scottish Ballet. Liz Bayley is a former professional dancer who later trained as a physiotherapist.