Growing up, Dan and Sambo have both sustained lower back injuries which has lead to motivating them to pursue the career of being a physiotherapist to help those who have or are currently struggling with injuries. In this episode we yarn about why, as physiotherapist, we should embrace our injuries because it allows us to empathise and understand what the patient in front of you is going through. This also helps to build rapport faster!! 

My first every solo episode!!! 😆 In this episode, I chat about my own life, my cultural background, why my parents are my biggest motivators, they have some pretty cracking stories to tell about their immigration process to NZ and the adversities they had to go through. Hope you enjoy this episode. With love, Dan 💚

We welcome Sambo our awesome new grad back into the poddy room as we discuss how we go about treating the EPC patients. Usually EPC patients have a bit more going on, more co-morbidities, yellow flags and other health complications. It can be a bit of a doozy to treat, but hopefully you can be a bit more confident after listening to this episode. 

Our theoretical case study: 65 yo retired farmer, Hx of heart condition, Hx CABAG surgery, ex smoker 40 years (recently quit). 

Now where do you go from here?? 

In this episode, queen Bri and I talk about who inspires us and WHY we have become physiotherapists. This episode is our most inspiring one and would love it if you messaged me on the @theflexingphysio instagram and told me who inspires you everyday. 

We are so blessed that in this clinic, we have a dietitian working with us. In this episode, we catch up Grainne Atwell as we discuss how physios can best work in with dietitians and also what cues we can gather from our subjective interview with our patients so that we should refer them to see a dietitian. Enjoy, now go eat a brocolli!! 

Liv and I have a yarn about why doing sport's training/sports physio work as a uni student is such a good idea! We also talk about the challenges we faced from our experiences and communicating with different personalities. Thanks for joining the poddy Liv ☺️

This episode, we tackle top advice from other fellow physios on things they wish they knew or thought about prior to starting their new grad work. 

In this episode, Bri and Dan tackle one of the listener's question (THANK YOU for the question!!) of how we reach a diagnosis, as it's not always a straight path. We talk about nailing your subjective assessment, having your differential diagnosis, what to do if you get stuck, never being afraid to ask for help and just CHILL OUT BRO!!! We chat about a real life experience that Bri had just this morning with a knee! 

We've all had the patient who comes in with lots and lots going on in their personal life. We know that the experience of pain is much more complicated than a simple structural damage. In this episode, wazza and I delve into how we navigate through a yellow flaggy type consult and how we can best use our skills to help them. Remember, they are also humans and they are able to change and sometimes you are the difference between them forever going down the path of self-wallowing pity and them taking ownership and actually doing something about it. So let's get motivated and make change, one patient at a time. 

In this episode we are going to catch up with our 2022 new grad, the amazing "Clean&Jerk King".. Sambo Foran. It's always a laugh and solid banter with this clown. Tune in to find out how he's coping working with proactive and with Dan Chang!!