Musculoskeletal rehabilitation practitioners spend years honing our clinical skills—how much time do we spend thinking about and practicing skills like listening, working in teams, and making decisions?

Today, Dr Nicol van Dyk - physiotherapist and Assistant Professor at University College Dublin - is here to make the case for real skills as keys to expert musculoskeletal rehabilitation practice.

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RESOURCES

To find out more and register for the YAHiR-JOSPT Young athlete’s Hip Webinar Series: https://semrc.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/events/yahir/

Essential skills for Physiotherapists led by David Clancy: https://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/essential-skills-for-physiotherapists-9780443111280.html

Seth Godin blog on real skills: https://itsyourturnblog.com/lets-stop-calling-them-soft-skills-9cc27ec09ecb and TED talk https://ideas.ted.com/soft-skills-and-real-skills/

Harvard Business Review - In praise of the incomplete leader: https://hbr.org/2007/02/in-praise-of-the-incomplete-leader

More on listening as a clinical skill: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30279218/

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NICOL'S TOP BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

How to win friends and influence people (Dale Carnegie): https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034

Leaders eat last (Simon Sinek): https://simonsinek.com/books/leaders-eat-last/

Dare to lead (Brene Brown): https://brenebrown.com/book/dare-to-lead/

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (John C Maxwell): https://www.amazon.com/21-Irrefutable-Laws-Leadership-Anniversary/dp/0785288376

Amazing discussion about vulnerability from Adam Grant with Brene Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXVhDSBiZCI