Wise Physiotherapy in Yarraville, Victoria | Physical therapist

Wise Physiotherapy

Locality: Yarraville, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9088 8029

Address: 177 Stephen Street 3013 Yarraville, VIC, Australia

Website: http://wisephysiotherapy.com.au

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19.01.2022 Storytelling: are we sharing the sh!t enough?

19.01.2022 I love that we are moving towards a patient-centred model of care, and yet I wonder if what’s your story? allows enough space for the wholeness of someone’s experience I suppose a story can be told however the narrator wants or thinks it ‘should’ be told, and yet I wonder if the teller understands what it really means to tell their story? Does it mean the story of my pain? Or does it mean the story of who I am?... Understanding what it is like to be someone else takes us deeper than the superficial story. It allows us to understand how they exist within it. It gives us more context, more empathy; it allows us more of a space to not fix, but to understand the complexity. Perhaps another question that could be used with sensitivity and genuine curiosity is what is it like to be you?

19.01.2022 Hola ace peeps I feel quite strongly about these themes as I felt they were rarely touched on throughout most of my career as a health professional. Have a read if it tickles your fancy ... https://www.wisephysiotherapy.com.au//are-we-exploring-the

16.01.2022 Pain is so complex and tricky and layered and contextual ... and there is no answer. And yet I wonder if sometimes we don’t explore pain enough - perhaps we fear the exploration will mean we think about it too much and then it will become central. I get that.... We want the humans we work with to concentrate on the meaningful things in life, not just focus on the pain. But what if the meaningful part of life could involve the exploration of pain and our relationship to it? What if getting closer to pain means we understand what it’s trying to tell us about ourselves? What if, through exploring ourselves, - exploring the suffering, the grief, the suppressed emotions - we learn things we never connected before? And what if these connections helped us to evolve? What if exploring pain and it’s centrality in life became a crucial way to learn and grow? This simply amazing human did this. She spent time with pain, reflecting, breathing, humbling enquiring. About why it was showing up. What it had to do with grief and trauma and a lifetime of living in fear. She drew, she made beautiful art, she shared her deep reflections, she allowed me to ask more questions, harder questions. She showed up. Every time. And she has pain in her life. And she’s so appreciative of what it’s allowed her to grow into. Herself. Vulnerability is what makes us stronger. Bloody hell, humans are ace

15.01.2022 Warm Data - messy, raw, multi-contextual relational experiences - where does it fit in healthcare?

13.01.2022 Hey discombobulated world, here’s a little convo I had the pleasure of joining around what wellbeing looks like in a pandemic. Wise Physiotherapy is about listening to people’s stories and providing a space where meaning and coherence can be developed. We explore story, the third space and how reflection is such an important part of our unfurling story to come. Feel free to have a listen and a share if it tickles your fancy

09.01.2022 Wellbeing is something that is such a personal experience and yet stories are how we learn about others. Here is a beautiful read on a story of wellbeing in solitude, written by Megan Corcoran. https://medium.com//thriving-in-covid-19-solitude-2bdd7cbe

07.01.2022 Collective Care Conversations: are we asking ourselves the questions that really matter? What does 'collective care' mean to our healthcare industry? How are we defining the 'collective'? How do we define 'care'? Such questions can be easily evaded as we strive to maintain our presence of expertise online, yet is that in itself, part of the calamity of modern healthcare? ... Long weekend reflective musings. Have a read if it tickles your fancy.

06.01.2022 Now more than ever we must abandon the performative and embrace the authentic This phrase was beautifully written by Aisha S. Ahmad in the article Why you should ignore all that coronavirus-inspired productivity pressure It speaks to identifying basic psychological and physical needs. ... It speaks to allowing space for a shift mentally .. one that many of us might not have had to walk through before. And it speaks to slowly figuring out new normals. There is so much noise. So many should’s. Walking through this process and creating a space for self inquiry seems distant, feels hard, IS HARD. Agency develops when we provide space for people to choose how they shape their lives. This ability to choose and act in an authentic way feels SO small at the moment with all the political and health and social directives. As healthcare practitioners, we can be a big part of the problem. We can also be the ones that tell people what they need to do, assuming we know best. Potentially our want to keep chugging along and keep an element of normalcy FOR US in our provision of care, is undermining the provision of autonomy and space for authenticity. We need to ask THEM. We need to ask OURSELVES. We need to give authentic answers and listen to authentic answers. Perhaps we need to step off our expert podium and step into humble inquiry. As humans. We all have a story we are walking through.

05.01.2022 ~ mulling thoughts over doing a masters NOT in the world of physiotherapy ~ Exploring outside the box: the nuanced weaving of physiotherapy and positive psychology. How often to we actually look outside our physio box? ... Like, really look. And by looking, I mean openly curious, not defensively guarded. By looking, I mean wholly acknowledging no one person, no one profession actually 'knows it all'. By looking, I mean truly understanding we are all meaningfully enriched through deeply listening to the experiences of others. Again, have a read if it blows your hair back https://www.wisephysiotherapy.com.au//exploring-outside-th

05.01.2022 Anyone curious about how stories can play a role in our relationships within healthcare?

04.01.2022 My covid brain has been mushy of late but I finally wrote a bit about how we relate in the physio/healthcare world

03.01.2022 Hola patients and practitioners alike! You ace humans you :) I wrote some words in the form of a story - feel free to have a read https://www.wisephysiotherapy.com.au//are-we-defining-our-

02.01.2022 Opening up space and conversation for the things that don’t make sense. We are all complex, meaning making humans. We are all searching for some level of coherence at the moment. ... We are all on our own path of figuring this out. Whilst also being a part of bigger systems. Family systems, professional systems, community systems, global systems. We are all interconnected. It’s complex. Yet complexity is normal. Even more normal with the world in crisis mode. Making sense and gaining understanding can be a big part of nervous system regulation. So understanding, that a major part of managing complexity, is to MANAGE, not solve. We aren’t looking for huge answers here. We are looking to manage. We are looking to make sense so we CAN manage. We are looking to make sense in a meaningful way to our lives, so we can find that next step. That next step in the - try, learn and adapt - mindset of complexity. By asking the question: what doesn’t make sense? we can create a safe space for fears, anxieties, grief, confusion. And by deeply listening to the inevitable complex story that unfolds, we can facilitate a better understanding of the complexity and we can help with meaning making. We can validate that potentially not a lot really makes sense at the moment. And that that’s ok.

02.01.2022 *New blog on my website* In a time where health professionals are rapidly moving their consultations online, our communication skills are being pushed front and centre. And yet potentially, we are not honestly facing the need to relate. As humans.... What have we gained and what have we lost in our abrupt journey online? What is really required right now? https://www.wisephysiotherapy.com.au//relating-as-humans-n

02.01.2022 Really ace people talking about really important themes