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"Your patients don’t respond to a technique. They respond to safety."

Why do some patients instantly brace when you touch them, while others fail to relax no matter how gentle your manual pressures are? In this episode, Jamie Johnston cuts through the academic fluff surrounding "trauma-informed care" to deliver a highly practical, clinical protocol for the treatment room.

When a patient has a history of trauma or persistent neurological pain, your treatment table isn't just a physical space—it can be a sensory minefield. Jamie introduces a concrete framework designed to transition your practice from protocol-based treatment to neurocentric, psychologically sensitive care. Learn how simple structural alterations, language adjustments, and patient autonomy can completely down-regulate a sympathetic nervous system stuck in "survival mode."

Inside this episode, we break down:

• The 5 Pillars of Trauma-Informed Care: Safety, Trustworthiness, Choice, Collaboration, and Empowerment.
• The Myth of Assumed Consent: Why the standard "intake signature" fails your complex patients and how to implement explicit, ongoing dialogue instead.
• Flipping the Script on Authority: Shifting your clinical dynamic from doing a treatment to a body to facilitating recovery with a human.
• The Clinical Emergency Plan: Exact communication steps and grounding cues to use when a patient experiences disassociation or a flashback on your table.
• Small Choices, Massive Wins: How giving clients control over simple variables (like which limb to treat first) restores the biological autonomy that trauma steals away.

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