Neurolab PT

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🐣 MATERNITY LEAVE 🐣

I am currently on maternity leave until January 2025.

I will still be available for current clients via Telehealth for review, and I will be available for reports, program updates and meetings.

For new referrals I will do my best to assist in providing alternate service suggestions.

Thanks for your understanding during this time of change.

Chloe
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⭐️Plasticity⭐️

Kleim & Jones (2008) highlight principles for activity induced plasticity:
1. Use it or lose it
2. Use it and improve it
3. Specificity
4. Repetition
5. Intensity matters
6. Timing matters
7. Salience matters (relevance of the task)
8. Age matteds
9. Transference
10. Interference

We can all take the time to reflect on our rehab sessions with clients. Are we meeting the above principles and what is the aim of our therapy?
Are we aiming for rehabilitative principles or would compensatory be better given the circumstances and impairments present?

Are we achieving the intensity we need to drive change? Ie 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for the first month post injury (Hubbard et al., 2015)
Or 40mins, 3 days a week at 40-60% heart rate reserve to drive exercise induced neuroplastic changes? (Chaves, et al., 2020).

How can we motivate our clients to achieve the parameters needed to drive neuroplastic change.

What language are we choosing to use, that could feed into maladaptive changes.

☀️HIRING☀️
Casual Senior Physiotherapist
Must have Neurology experience and be eager to learn Respiratory community care.

There’s the possibility to go permanent part time if wanting and outreach to Albany is available, if interested.

Needing someone with availability weekly for clients.

Reach out !
[email protected]

End of the year outreach dates. Physio & OT visits available

☀️Outreach ☀️
Another great trip.

Thanks to everyone who has helped to make it possible. Most importantly, thanks to our new clients for welcoming us so graciously.

See you in October!

Thanks to

☀️Outreach Dates ☀️

Next Clinic
18th and 19th October
Physiotherapy only

29th-30th November & 1st December
Occupational Therapy & Physiotherapy

Email to book
[email protected]

☀️Goals ☀️

Thinking about your own goals, who set them? You? Or someone else?

Did your therapist tell you to set a goal about getting to bed on time, or to aim for 5:30min/Kms with your running program? Or to sign up for your next uni course.

I didn’t think so…

But here we are, jumping in for our clients, & setting their goals for them.
- Make sure you walk everyday- but they could hate walking or have too much knee pain.
- Make sure you eat vegetables- but they may have never eaten vegetables even pre injury
- Complete your exercise program 3 x a week- but they have no idea how straightening their knee 10 times relates to walking better in their home.

Do we jump in because we hate the silent pause the client gives us when we ask what their goals are? Does the silence make us comfortable so we aim to fill it?
Are we to time poor or focused on the next thing, that we don’t allow time to have a conversation about what is important to our client and what makes “them” them.

Reflect on your practice and see what’s holding you back from getting to know your clients better.
We aren’t perfect, I found out the other week my client loves dancing- and I’ve been her therapist for 3 years! I felt ashamed and embarrassed that I had missed such an important aspect of her identity.

Take the time, set goals together, don’t jump in to fill the silence, ask your client what makes “them” them. Change your mindset.

You’ll be surprised with the buy in you get, and the increase in client motivation and fulfilment.

Neurolab PT
[email protected]

We have had an amazing start to our outreach services. Our September clinic is fully booked! Next visit is 18th and 19th October, where it’ll just be a physio visit. Home visits and clinic visits available Reach out now to book or refer. [email protected] #albany #physiotherpay #physio #neuro

🌻 Home Programs 🌻 ….. are always a drag. This is why goal setting is so important with your team, so we can create tailored programs with your input - to do things you actually care about. No one wants the same movements for 6 weeks straight, only to loose sight of the reason for doing them in the first place. Right? Yet it seems everyone wants the piece of paper that tells them to squat 10 times. Then feel defeated when the end of the week comes around and they’ve only managed to move the paper from the kitchen bench to the dining table. I advocate for movement to become part of your routine, to look different each day and be chosen according to how your body feels. Let’s ditch the boring stuff and focus on things that make you, YOU! Hearing you say…. “I stood to chop the veggies each night, I emptied the dishwasher, I walked around the block, and I used my standing desk each day” - brings me joy ! This is better then your program. In my eyes. You won the week 💪🏻 Email me to revamp your program. [email protected]

Albany Outreach! Another great trip 🌻

☀️ Brain Health ☀️ Some easy habits to make sure your brain is working at its best : 1. Sleep 7-9 hours 2. Hydration 1.5-2litres 3. Exercise : daily movement 4. Learning & Challenge: learn new things or challenge your brain by turning off google maps! 5. Connect: stay socially connected with friends and family 6. Diet: eat a well balanced diet and try not to skip meals 7. Habits: maintain healthy habits. Try not to smoke or drink exclusively 8. Meditation: take time out to breathe and slow down 9. Mental health: look after your mental health. Practice self care.