radical principles alive in my treatment room:

 

trust your experience

 

healing is not linear and you will still move forward

 

your body is an intelligent system designed to return to function

 

go slow to go fast

 

small changes are huge

 

injuries can be opportunities

 

your body never forgets its history

 

all issues are layered and multifaceted

 

everything in the body is connected, and thank goodness

 

no one can say how much you can regain and most of the time it’s more than they can imagine

 

you have existing potential to improve, whether or not the potential is easily predictable or a mystery

 

you are in this room whole, no matter how many layers of muck cover your light

 

language is a healer, use its power for the good

 

your healing gives a gift back to you AND to me

 

there is no normal, but there is a new normal for you

 

finding yourself back in your body here helps you practice connecting to your body in the world outside

 

if there was a way into dysfunction, there is a way out

 

people do return from all kinds of situations to wholeness

 

you have the most healing potential when you feel safe and seen

 

your most lasting progress is holistic, multi-layered, slow and miraculous

 

spending more time in your physical body daily gives you access to better health

 

breaks in therapy allow integration so the changes sink all the way into your bones

 

regaining a regulated nervous system increases your capacity to better manage pain, stress, challenge and healing

 

your whole self comes to therapy, no matter what body part is listed in the PT order and the whole is best to treat to address the part

 

you are currently receiving therapy within a system.  these principles are radical to this system and may not be visible everywhere, let them live in you

 

we will learn about the body, learn tools and strategies, & discuss healing barriers so you can return to your life

 

i will do my best to show you involved layers and factors and help you connect the dots

 

your goals are based on your dreams and functions you are working toward that will enhance your life

 

you will do your best to stay curious about your part, committed to try strategies and hopeful about your recovery

 

there is a reason for your pain and/or dysfunction, even if we haven’t uncovered it yet and we may find solutions outside the box

 

consider the possibility that someday what you are experiencing today will be an asset to you and in the world

 

consider the ways you have already “made it” and consider the possibility that one day you will speak of this and say “I made it through”

 

 

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the system’s beliefs:

 

insurance dictates whether the person has improved or not.  if not, discharge them to get another person into the door

 

people will continue to attend therapy if you don’t cut them off, even when they are not getting lasting improvement

 

prevention, education, and improving capacity are not valid reasons to be engaged in therapy and taking up a PT slot

 

there is nothing worse than telling a patient that you don’t know, just come up with a reason and tell the patient

 

only treat what the order states is the main concern, the body can be separated and treated as parts

 

appropriate measures include ROM, strength, balance measures and questionaires around pain

 

psychosomatic issues means that there is nothing physical therapy can offer that patient

 

If progress takes longer than 6-12 weeks, it no longer counts as progress

 

most people heal in 6-8 weeks from anything insurance should cover

 

the therapist is there to serve the patient, at any cost to themselves 

 

all patients are equal in terms of productivity, no matter their acuity

 

at some point, you are at a place where you can no longer recover

 

collaboration takes away from efficiency, which is the main goal

 

only big milestones and goals matter when measuring progress

 

support for a patient should be limited and highly regulated

 

do the impossible or very difficult and don’t ask us how

 

the goal is to see as many people as possible

 

some people will never get better