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Ben, Jarod & Mark get down and dirty talking about social Media in the rehab space. Whats the current state of Social media & rehab How is it reflecting & affecting our behaviours Whats the good, the bad & the ugly?

We are 10 episodes old! This time Ben, Mark & Jarod chat about how exercise works for pain! Key themes Exercise is NOT just physical in effect Be person not exercise focused The aim of rehab is NOT to exercise but to engage in life Exercise has health benefits Don't make the same mistakes as manual therapy expecting one mechanism to rule them all

In this episode Ben., Mark & Jarod get into the Biopsychosocial model and discuss the dreaded pendulum. Does the BPS model forget the Bio? Is there even a pendulum? Does the healthcare system prevent BPS care? Also check out the forthcoming Complete Patient Experience conference coming up on November 2/3rd in Arizona https://event.completepatientexperience.com/complete-patient-experience-interest-optin?fbclid=IwAR3ZPLxwheyW1LQ2V1oaaCxOqECQ4Vrpmxyitss5VYdXvEfytfb2OQbSAaY

Ben, Mark and Jarod talk evidence! Key messages. Evidence helps us avoid bias traps as we are all biased towards interventions and also to positive effects. Understand more about research methods. Just because it says so in a paper does not make it so. Evidence has to interact with patient values. Evidence does not simply give us an answer. Critical thinking is not just accepting or dismissing evidence. Be critical of your own biases. Current challenges in the Information Age maybe more about how to consume and deconstruct research rather than how to discover it.

In Episode 7 Ben, mark & Jarod chat about one of the most used terms in rehab - 'Load'! What does load mean? Can we define it? Allostatic load model Stress bucket Can we simply apply this to pain? Can we easily modify all 'load' especially psychosocial? Do we need patient buy in?

Ben, Mark and Jarod talk the current state of play in continuing education. Whats good, whats bad and whats plain ugly!

This month Ben, Mark & Jarod talk about PAIN. Watch out this one gets deep. The boys discuss a BioPSychoSocial view of pain and also the dominant pain narratives we have. Is pain all about danger, threat and protection?

Ben, Mark & Jarod get into manual therapy. Do you need to use manual therapy? Does it work? How does it work? Does Mark get ranty?

Episode 3! In this episode we attempted to discuss exercise adherence. We did however go off on some tangents and we also talked about: Exercise specificity How exercise might work Bias Ands some others as well Enjoy

The second episode focuses on pain education. Mark discusses his recent trip to IASP conference in Boston Latest research into pain neuroscience education A systematic review and meta‐analysis of pain neuroscience education for chronic low back pain: short‐ and long‐term outcomes of pain and disability https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejp.1314?af=R& Mark, Jarod & Ben answer some questions from the interwebz

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