Articles & Education

Gaining the best possible outcome from your physiotherapy treatment requires a little more than just doing your exercises. This brief guide for patients outlines some concepts that can really make a difference beyond your physiotherapist’s treatment.

At PhysioSouth we have physiotherapists with special interests, including knee problems, running, shoulder, back and neck, cricket, throwing sports, tendon, vocational (work) and pain focused physiotherapists.

Nobody comes to PHYSIOSOUTH to learn mindfulness. Patients come because of a physical injury, e.g. a back problem, a knee problem etc. Our belief systems tell most of us that a physical injury of a certain degree or size causes a related amount of pain. Like injury X = X amount of pain, and injury Y = Y amount of pain. This is incorrect.

Being active, and engaging in exercise has massive health and well-being benefits.

Community physiotherapy clinics have recently made a commitment to ensure every person in Canterbury has the chance to be active, regardless of injury, disability or disease.

WHY PATIENTS SHOULD BE OFFERED LOW TECH, LOW COST, MOVEMENT BASED, EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS BEFORE MORE TECHNICAL AND INVASIVE OPTIONS.

This newsletter aims to connect, whether you are a customer or colleague. This year at PHYSIOSOUTH our theme has been “Other people matter”. The late Chris Peterson, a founder of “Positive Psychology”, has used this phrase to define in a nutshell what positive psychology is really all about. However, it also rings true for physiotherapy, all of the other health professions, and more. It’s a fundamental theme of a healthy society.