7 Google Apps Every Health Professional Should Know About
Today is my first guest post for this blog! I hope you enjoy it – and thanks to Lis from Perth for getting in touch with me! More and more web hosting providers, particularly the ones that are free, are powerfully persuading their clients to use Google Apps in order to manage their email more … Read more
Health coaching resources and worksheets
I thought I’d do a quick search through the internet to locate resources and worksheets for health coaching – and what a wealth there is! I’m not sure about the grammar of that last sentence, but I am sure of the amazing amount of material there is online. First up, a link back to Health … Read more
Health coach?
I wonder what it would be like to change our focus in pain management – what if we looked to promote wellbeing rather than ‘manage pain’? What would this look like? Today’s post I want to dream a little – call it me an idealist, but I think if we start with a vision of … Read more
Friday funnies!
And sadly, this one too… I will not even start on the Michael Jackson or Farrah Fawcett jokes… but leave you with this one, and would you believe, Manly Jack sent it to me so I could check whether I had swine flu? Don’t go to work if this is what YOU see in the … Read more
Splish! Splash! Hydrotherapy for chronic back pain is pretty good!
Just a quickie post this morning, but one that I couldn’t resist. You know how nice it is to be soaking in a hot bath or hot pools after doing some great energetic thing (vacuuming the house? gardening?) – and how many people with chronic pain tell us that a soak in a bath or … Read more
A Positive Case Formulation for Chronic Pain
The past couple of days I’ve looked at resilience, strengths and growth as part of assessing a person with chronic pain. The rationale is that although we are often seeking to provide support for deficits, or develop strengths, I wonder whether we always appreciate what people already have used to live with their pain. To … Read more
Bouncing back – resilience
After looking at positive coping in my post from yesterday, I hoped to bring an assessment to light – and lo and behold I found one! This brief assessment differs from other resilience measures in that it looks at recovery, resistance, growth and adaptation rather than simply the resources a person might bring into a … Read more
Accentuate the positive
How often do we spend most of our assessment time looking at people’s problems, deficits, functional difficulties? I know that much of my time in assessment involves looking across a range of domains and experiences – and whooops! by the time we come to an end I’ve hardly looked at what this person has continued … Read more
Chronic Pain Australia
It’s amazing the networking that can happen over the interweb. Today I had a message from ‘Cozzie’. Now you’d have to think, if you’re a Kiwi, that Cozzie is an Ozzie – and you’d be right! Well, she said she’d read some of my posts and thought they were OK – so I took a … Read more
Random daily acts of a pain management therapist
Our erstwhile hero, SuperTherapist (ST) is discovered in her work habitat…
