Fantastic to see all my old UK Physio colleagues and other Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) members protesting for what they deserve! 👏 👏 👏

Physios uses analogies to help with concept simplification to aid patient understanding. A thread on the common analogies that I have learnt to use🧵 PS: Not all analogy will work so exercise caution with this.

“… just start the furosemide infusion.”

In a virtual or hybrid world, the lack of direct connection makes emotions harder to gauge & belonging/shared purpose harder to build. That's why we should focus not just on virtual processes but on behaviours & mentality: tanveernaseer.com/leadership-biz… V Tanveer Naseer Art: irina blok

3 solutions to the emergency care crisis from BGS President Adam Gordon MBE: 1. Shift in attitudes - half of patients have frailty. 2. Front door frailty. 3. Investment in rehabilitation. Until we fix rehab, the revolving door will continue. Royal College of Emergency Medicine

DELAYED DISCHARGE Social care is often seen as the main cause of delays discharging patients from hospital, it’s not the whole story accounting for less than half of the problem Failure to fund community care is creating delays throughout hospitals health.org.uk/publications/l…

QUICK GUIDE FOR PHYSIOTHERAPISTS: THE LOW BACK PAIN CLINICAL CARE STANDARD australian.physio/sites/default/… Chris Maher Australian Physiotherapy Association ACSQHC

This could apply to all hospital wards - optimise the noise & lighting for better patient care!

🏋️‍♂️💪🏼 Muscular Strength as a Predictor of All-Cause Mortality in an Apparently Healthy Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Data From Approximately 2 Million Men and Women pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29425700/

This cannot be understated. We are seeing a growing, ageing and more complicated patient population and we *NEED* to start seeing Geriatric care as the speciality that it is! If not, this will have significant ramifications in the future - for everyone British Geriatrics Society Jacqui Holmes

2.4 billion people worldwide have health conditions that could benefit from rehabilitation. Prioritising #rehabilitation and growing the workforce is necessary to meet increasing global demand, say MANOJ SIVAN and Stefano Negrini bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Get moving! Personally, exercise has been a huge help for my own mental health. Always great when it’s summarised in a paper.

facebook.com/share/p/L5EsNW… Happy Belated World Physio Day!