The Physio Matters Podcast
Putting big mouths and big ideas behind microphones.
The Physio Matters Podcast is a feature of Chews Health’s third core value ‘We Educate’.
Episodes will feature expert, honest advice, delivered directly to listeners at no cost.
The Physio Matters Podcast content hopes to be clinical gold delivered direct.
Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine information for those working in physiotherapy, sports therapy, sports rehabilitation, medicine and all divisions of the healthcare industry.
Session 22 – ‘Medically Unexplained Symptoms’ with Roger Kerry
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Podcast Timeline:
0:00-1:35 Intro
1:35-3:25 Intro to Roger and Medically Unexplained Symptoms
3:25-5:10 What are MUS?
– Established term
– Demonstrable lack of explanatory pathology
5:10-12:45 What challenges does this present
– EBM issues
– RCTs have limitations
12:45-15:45 Roger being misinterpreted?
– Not anti-EBM, Pro-science!
– Pendulums
15:45-22:00 Causation
– Philosophical underpinning of RCT vs clinical practice
– Multifactorial, context specific, changeable
22:00-27:45 Biopsychosocial model
– Game shifting move forwards
– Lets not relax
– Not holistic, reduces patients down to 3 components
27:45-33:50 How do we get to holistic care?
– Difficult to say right now
– We need to change how we think about evidence
– We need to involve the patient
33:50-41:00 Categorising/stratifying care
– Subgroup n=1
– Person centred care
41:00-45:20 Is Physio well placed to draw all this together?
45:20-47:30 Reluctance to scrutinize own practice
47:30-53:00 Are MUS explained by processing faults?
– Trying to improve function
– Not reinforcing unhelpful beliefs
53:00-1:01:00 Jack’s Case study
– Not why but what and how
1:01:00-1:02:30 Patient centred doesn’t mean pandering to patients
1:02:30-1:05:05 Roger you would make a very good clinician!
1:05:05-1:08:00 Roger’s plugs
1:08:00-1:10:00 Outro
Previous episodes:
Session 1 – Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome with Dr Lee Herrington – Part 1
Session 2 – Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome with Dr Lee Herrington – Part 2
Session 3 – The Rugby Shoulder with Dr Ian Horsley
Session 4 – Know Pain: Metaphoric Expression with Mike Stewart – Part 1
Session 5 – Know Pain: Metaphoric Expression with Mike Stewart – Part 2
Session 6 – Achilles Tendons with Seth O’Neill
Session 7 – Critical Thinking, Twitter & Manual Therapy Myths with Adam Meakins
Session 8 – Haemodynamics with Alan Taylor
Session 9 – Psychological Interventions in Physiotherapy with Dr Richard Bennett
Session 10 – Exercise Promotion with Ann Gates
Session 11 – Treating Tendons with Seth O’Neill
Session 13 – A Year in Podcasts with The Physio Matters Podcast Team
Session 14 – The Unstable Concept of Core Stability with Ben Smith
Session 15 – Does Work Matter with Heather Watson
Session 16 – Biomechanics and Pain: The Ongoing Dilemma with Greg Lehman
Session 17 – Building & maintaining an award winning MSK service with Paula Deacon
Session 18 – The myth of ‘over-pronation’ with Ian Griffiths
Session 19 – Managing Runners with Matt Phillips and Tom Goom
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