I attended the first half of a 6-day Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Immersion course at the end of January. The second half is taking place at the beginning of November. The purpose of the course is to be able to offer CBT in a brief context while knowing when it may be necessary to refer […]
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How far should we go with providing pain relief?
So, patients want and expect pain relief. Should that be our end goal then? Do whatever we can to relieve pain? It might not necessarily be what brought them to us (perhaps it’s their disability levels), but when they do come to us, they want pain relief. The question that I struggle with still is […]
Moving Forward Together: Harmonizing Indigenous Wellness in Medicine and Health Practices
The following post is a reflection I contributed to, along with three other physiotherapists, after attending a conference on the Six Nations reserve. We wrote it for the CPA Global Health Division’s monthly e-blast and they were kind enough to let me re-post it here. Thanks to Miriam Beatty, Katie Gasparelli, and Corey Kim for […]
Course Review – Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science
I attended Greg Lehman’s Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science course again at the beginning of October and it was a great refresher! The purpose of this post is to summarize my take-away points and discuss how this course has and will continue to benefit me. Take-away points (in no particular order): The human body is […]
I’m back. Things I’ve learned during my absence
Maintaining a blog is much harder than I thought. Major kudos to everyone who keeps up with regular blog posts! It’s been more than a year since my last post and I am coming to the end of my Physiotherapy program. I still want to finish off the ankle sprain “series” that I started but […]
Top 3 Books That Have Influenced Me
I love reading. I think it is so important as I certainly would not be who I am or where I am today without the books that I have read. I think that everyone should read, whether it’s fiction or non-fiction. In an effort to motivate others to read and to emphasize how much reading can impact […]