The New Grad Physio Podcast

Patients presenting with hip pain can sometimes be tough to get a handle on. Often they might improve to your hands-on treatments and early rehab exercises… But as soon as they go back to things like the gym, running or sport the hip gets irritated and your back to square one!  Sound familiar? The hip is one of the most difficult joints to treat because it can be so easily aggravated. Just about every type of movement, like any form of squat, lunge, running, even walking. To make matters worse even simple tasks like your patient putting their socks or shoes on, sitting, driving and even sleeping can also set the hip off! But there is one simple thing you can do to make a quick change to hip pain. And this will not only help you take away a patients hip pain… But also help you keep it away. Find out what it is in this week's podcast episode. Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources head to www.newgradphysio.com

Working out how to make the right career decision can be tough. Do you start in the NHS and do your rotations...then decide which way to go? Is this the right thing if you know you want to work in private practice or sport... Or should you head straight into one of these areas? How do you transition from one area to another... Like private practice to sport full-time, or vice versa... Or climb the promotion ladder in the area you currently work when you lack experience? Sound like you? Then listen to this week's new podcast episode for some help! Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources

Sat in a supermarket cafe back in 2010 a short conversation as a new grad physio changed my career. I’d just started working at the Leeds Rhinos, a job I had took straight from University. I had skipped the usual academy and part-time roles to join full-time with the first team. Things were great but… A conversation I had that day in that supermarket cafe changed things. Learn what advice I got and how you can take the same advice to fast-track your own new grad physio career! Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources

You do not need me to tell you how important your patient assessment is. The assessment is at the start for a very good reason... As it informs everything else you do after that. It gives you your diagnosis... Helps inform your patient prognosis... And tells you what treatments and rehab to prescribe your patient. Even as an inexperienced physio and even with complex cases, you should always be able to identify a probable cause of your patients symptoms after your subjective assessment. Next you can use your objective assessment to prove or disprove this. The subjective assessment is so important. I'd go as far as saying it is probably the most important part of what you do as a therapist, because everything else you do after this is reliant on a good subjective assessment. But it is something that so many new grad physio's struggle with. Listen to this week's podcast and discover 3 tips to help you nail your subjective assessment. Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources

Assessing swelling during your knee pain assessments is something I am sure you already do... But are you missing the main point of this simple assessment? You might use tests like a patella sweep or patella tap test to assess for the presence of knee joint swelling... But what do these tests really tell you and how can you use these simple test results to accurately find the right patient diagnosis? Simple tests at the knee might appear just that, simple, but, they can give you highly important information you need to find the right patient problems and ensure you are treating the source and not just the site of your patient's symptoms. Find out how to maximise your knee special testing in this week's podcast episode. Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources

The key to success with any patient is being able to clinically reason what you are doing. It is being able to make sound judgements based on the findings of your clinical assessment and making the right call with a patient’s diagnosis and prognosis. This can be hard as a new grad, especially if you are seeing injuries that you might not commonly see, or injuries that you have not had much experience with in the past. The physio inside you always wants to give a positive spin on each and every injury you see, to give good news and a rosy prognosis… But be careful as this might sometimes catch you out! Hear how this almost happened to me with this pro netball player just last week so you do not make the same mistake yourself, in the latest episode of the New Grad Physio podcast. Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources

Being able to clinically reason what you are doing in your patient assessments, treatments and rehab, is key to getting consistent patient results. Without it...you are just guessing! We talk about clinical reasoning ALL the time in the therapy world... Yet most therapists, even experienced ones, do a really poor job in actually applying this practice to their day to day work.  Do you sometimes go through your assessment and even if you are unsure what the diagnosis is, carry on regardless? Do you prescribe rehab exercises or using treatment techniques just because you are comfortable with them… Or use techniques or exercises just because they have worked well in the past with similar patients... Or use random exercises with your patients just because they appear popular this week on Instagram? You are not alone... But you should never start treating your patient until you are clear about what you are actually trying to fix. Listen to this week's podcast episode where I give you 3 simple steps you can follow to ensure you don’t make this big mistake and ensure you can clinically reason any treatment technique or rehab exercise you use. Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

Most therapists I speak to think they have a problem with their treatment and rehab programmes. You think you need to learn more skills... So you go on courses to learn loads acupuncture, dry needling, ART or some other 3-word treatment technique or... You start using using blood flow restriction training or some other 'sexy' rehab protocols or a new exercise that you have just seen your favourite physio using on Instagram. Sure some of these techniques and rehab exercises might help. But they will only help your patient if you give your patient the right intervention...at the right time. Most therapists do NOT have a problem with their treatment and rehab programmes. Listen to this week's podcast episode to find out what problem they really have and why you need to make sure you are not making this very same mistake. Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

Getting your foot in the door in sport is tough. You are in direct competition with 1000's of therapists, for the same job roles. The same can also happen in private practice and in the NHS. The demand for good new grad jobs, far outweighs the number of jobs out there. Throughout the pandemic many clinics and sports clubs cut therapy staff and whilst we are (hopefully) seeing the back end of covid-19, many organisations have been reluctant to open up new job roles. This means an even more limited supply of jobs... And with a steady stream of new grad physio's, sports therapist's and sports rehabber's all looking for to get that job role you are applying for.. If ever there was a time you needed to stand out from the crowd in a busy job market it is NOW! Listen to this week's podcast episode to find out what you need to open doors and start your new grad physio journey on the right path. Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

I learnt this the hard way.  Earlier in my career working in sport this usually resulted in a barge of questions and shouting from an angry head coach... Or patients becoming frustrated when I could not fix them after the first few sessions, so they stop turning up for their sessions in the clinic. I did not appreciate the important of something so simple and this led me to a lot of problems! I used to think it was the head coaches or my patients fault... But it was in fact my fault! I was making a simple error that I see being made every day by therapists just like you with their own patients... That is stopping you making the progress you want with your patients and getting them back to full fitness. Want to know what it is? Listen to this week's podcast episode. Enjoy the show! PS. Andy would love to hear your feedback on this podcast. Please leave a review or get in touch at andy@newgradphysio.com and he will get right back to you. PPS. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Confident & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com