Can you be curious?

Can you be curious?

When people with chronic issues come for treatment, often they are those who have been around a number of therapists without much success.  Then they come to check out what we do. In these instances, our focus is simple: find the ‘root cause’. My very first teacher, Ken Woodward, taught me to be curious. Ken…

Why I love teaching therapists

Why I love teaching therapists

I love to teach, to share what I have learnt over the past 30 years as first a Remedial Massage therapist, physiotherapist, and Hendrickson Method therapist. I was first invited to teach by the Northern Institute of Massage back in 2003. Eddie Caldwell, the owner, said of me ‘he’d never met such a through, thought…

Hypermobility: me and my patients

Hypermobility: me and my patients

Over the years I have treated many people including young people, learning to live with chronic pain, because of their hypermobile bodies and accompanying syndromes, Ehlers-Danlos and Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) I attended a workshop with Jeannie Di Bon, (with Polestar UK), I had gone with the intension of being able to support my patients,…

The Importance of Subjective Assessment

The Importance of Subjective Assessment

I see more and more patients presenting with complex pain patterns. I wonder if this is just me or is this happening to many other therapists? Certainly therapists attending workshops over the last couple of years have commented that this was their experience also. Therefore subjective assessment has been increasingly important. At the workshops we…

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