🖐Physiotherapist specialising in hand injuries ..🧠Personal/Professional Development Coach..👩⚕️Health Coach ..🤗We are all a work in progress!
Limerick, Ireland
Joined October 2016
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Feel free to share with any physios around Limerick, would really appreciate it! Part time senior msk 20hrs a week
Why do I refer to every child's mother as "Mum" in physio... and never use "Mum" in any other context in life😅 ... "Attended with Mum who expressed concerns...". "Phoned Mum and left message"
Seven "Pillars of Health" we use for #HealthCoaching that people can work on to improve overall health and wellbeing
😴sleep
🕺movement
🥘 nutrition
👭relationships
🧘🏻♀️resilience
🏡 environment
🌏sense of purpose/meaning
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Not exhaustive but a good start?
Learning all about interpreting hand/wrist xrays for the next 3 days with #BAHT #handtherapy
An excerpt from my talk last night at our team education night on management of acute hand/finger injuries. Trying to increase awareness and get some referrals into Hand Therapy
Apparently yesterday was #WorldPhysiotherapyDay and our lovely Clinical Lead (a Doctor) knew this 😍 small gestures are the best gestures
Aoife Leahy retweeted
How often does rehab & rehab research look for that ONE perfect exercise that hits the KEY mediator/variable for recovery, such as strength or motor control?
Answer…..A lot!
Should rehab be viewed more like eating a balanced diet?
Here is a 🧵 to explain this better
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Is it just me or is everyone with hand pain told "Squeeze a ball" and anyone who has foot pain told "roll a ball under your foot"??
Anyone else think this looks like a tiny avulsion, xray report is normal 🤔 haven't seen the patient yet, just curious @halseyhands1 @BucksHandExpert @iangattphysio
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Second half goals from Darragh Corry (2) and Andrew Conheady give Tulla a clear lead of 4:16 to 0:13 over Bodyke in the IHC this evening in Sixmilebridge, approx 5 more minutes left of play
Pic @nbartonfoto
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Our body as a machine view:
• Wear & tear.
• Has to be "fixed".
• Needs alignment.
• Pain means damage.
I wonder how humans viewed our bodies before the industrial revolution.
Likely,
• We can adapt, grow & change.
• Asymmetry is normal.
• Needs caring for.
Custom made splints more effective for mallet injures #handtherapy
Mallet injuries: I don’t think hand therapists will be surprised to reads that stack splints had a higher risk of failure than custom made ones. Other risk factors for failure were increasing age and a tendinous injury. jhsgo.org/article/S2589-5141…
Mcp blocking splint for #triggerfinger. No amazing research evidence for it but relatively cheap and it's non invasive. Steroid injections are very effective but I'm all for avoiding steroids if we can! #handtherapy
As a new grad I dreaded the situations where a patient asked me something and inside I was screaming "I don't know!!!" but I thought it would totally undermine me if I didn't have some sort of an answer. Now I openly say "I don't know" and have never had a negative reaction to it
Opening the doors to our first Hand Therapy clinic in September. Ireland has very few of these clinics and I think the potential is huge!
I have @BhrHand to thank for being my first supervisors in 2019 and even offering advice across the pond on how to get set up here💛