The New Grad Physio Podcast

Think about going to see your doctor. And before you even get chance to explain what is going on… The doctor just gives you some pills and shows you the door. You would hope this would never happen. Clearly the doctor needs to ask you some questions and examine you to diagnose your issue and THEN… Prescribe you with the right medication or advice for your illness. But most therapists do this very same thing day in and day out. You go through your assessment and even if you are unsure on what the diagnosis is you carry on regardless. This is no different to that bad doctor. You should never start treating your patient until you are clear about what you are actually trying to fix. In this podcast episode you will learn 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, with any patient you see. 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. 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

Whilst every patient you see will be different… They will have different injuries… Different past medical histories… And different outcome goals… They ALL require the SAME rehab steps to get them out of pain and back to full function. If you having a clear and structured rehab plan this means you will be confident about which problems to treat first… And know how you are going to progress a patient through their rehab, from start to finish. And best of all... You will know what you are going to do with your patient even before they walk through your clinic door! This podcast episode will show you how this works and how you can apply this strategy in your own practice. 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. 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

If you sometimes find yourself getting stuck with your patients... And wonder what treatment technique or rehab exercise to use once you have finished your patient assessments… Then this podcast episode is for you! Once you have made a diagnosis and have identified your patients problems… The next step is for you to fix these problems. Whether the patient has lost ROM, or lacks strength or something else... The sole job of your treatment plan is to fix these problems. But where do you start? And how do you know you have picked the right treatment or rehab exercises? Regardless of whether you use hands-on treatments or rehab, or both… This podcast will help you understand how to tackle a patient’s treatment plan and know where to start with any patient, with any injury. 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. 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

Impingement is NOT a diagnosis. I hold my hands up and admit that I used to think it was... And worse still, I admit I gave it this diagnosis to 100's of patients and the athletes that I worked with. Not only is this diagnosis label highly inaccurate... Giving impingement as a diagnosis is actually detrimental to your treatment plan and results in reduced adherence to a patients home exercise programme! If you understand this it is a one way ticket to quicker and more consistent results, even with tricky shoulder and hip cases. In this new podcast I’ll show exactly why ‘impingement’… - Is NOT a diagnosis and what it actually is - Why it is lazy label to use and what you should focus your and your patients attentions on instead - Why it should never be used and how to give a diagnosis to a subacromial bursa or cuff issue (the injuries that you would normally call ‘impingement’) without a mention of the word impingement. 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. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Competent & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

Have you noticed that most injuries you see are not quite as simple or clear cut as you were told at University. Those textbook shoulder, knee or lower back pain patients never walk in to your clinic. Patients always seem to have other issues, like previous injures or symptoms that do NOT fit that textbook clinical pattern. When your objective tests don’t match your subjective question’s, it throws you sideways and you start to doubt yourself... Worrying whether or not you will have the skills to work out what their problem is and how to fix it. If you have already qualified you will know exactly what I am talking about. If you are still studying you have all this to come! But there is a simple way to make sense of your patient assessments and it’s not some magic test or new assessment method. It’s actually much simpler than that. Listen this this special episode to find out what it is... 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. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Competent & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

When it comes to the shoulder and special testing, the biggest mistake that I see New Grad’s make, is doing too many tests… And worse than this… Relying too much on special testing to make a diagnosis. This is a big problem because most of the special tests at the shoulder are $*&£. They have poor sensitivity and specificity and as such, are not great tests to use to make a correct diagnosis. If you are relying too much on special tests during your assessments, finding a clear diagnosis at the shoulder, is almost impossible. Listen to this podcast episode to discover why all New Grad’s make the same mistakes with the shoulder… Learn my shoulder assessment game-changer and… Find out exactly the best ‘special’ tests to use with your shoulder assessments. 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. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Competent & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

Why is it that shoulders are so difficult to treat and especially, tricky to diagnose? The reason… 99% of New Grads (likely you too) are greatly overcomplicating the assessment. This leads to overwhelm and uncertainty about the diagnosis… Leaving you feeling confused, as your subjective and objective assessments don’t match up. You may think that the shoulder is complicated and as a result you need some ‘magic’ assessment formula to find the right problem. But it’s actually the opposite. You don’t need a more elaborate assessment structure or to learn more shoulder tests. You actually need to make it more simple. A simpler shoulder assessment will make the management of the patients and athletes you see with shoulder pain much easier. Listen to this latest podcast episode to find out how! 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. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Competent & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

In this special episode I spoke to Jade Danes, a sports therapy graduate currently working in both professional sport and private practice. Just in the last 12 months Jade has progressed from being turned down for jobs in both clinics and at professional sports clubs in favour of other sports therapists and physio’s… To now working in professional sport, including elite rugby union and rugby league and running her own business! Jade had some great tips for aspiring New Grads hoping to take their own first successful steps when they graduate and you can hear them all in this 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. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Competent & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

Stop wasting your time and efforts on the wrong rehab exercises and treatments and halt your frustration... So you can treat even tricky ankle patients! The ankle is meant to be a relatively simple joint. So, why is it that even simple ankle cases can sometimes struggle to get back to full fitness? It used to baffle me as a New Grad. I couldn’t quite grasp why such a simple joint was sometimes so tricky to fix up. That’s until I learnt how to assess the ankle using a really simple test… And how to use the results of this test to tell me exactly what to treat and what rehab to give my patients and athletes. It stopped me wasting my time and efforts on methods that would never improve range of movement... Because I was no longer treating the wrong thing! I’ll show you how to do the same in this special podcast episode... So you can give your patients exactly the right treatments and rehab they actually need... Stop frustrating rehab for you and your patient... And get quick, positive patient results with any ankle injury! 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. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Competent & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com

He had depression and I didn’t know. We were 4 months in to a 9 month rehab programme and he had been struggling for the last 3 months. I had spent 1-2 hours with him almost every day of the week with his post op shoulder treatment and rehab yet… I was totally unaware of what was going on in his head. As a health progressional I was meant to help him. Looking back I let him down. I didn’t have the knowledge, skills or confidence with this type of problem. There’s no worse feeling when you can NOT help your patient. Knowing what I know now has greatly helped me in my day-day practice by helping me really understand what questions to ask my patient and athletes to identify and deal with any yellow flag issues. Yellow flag questioning is NOT just trying to identify previous or current mental health issues or social problems. It’s about identifying barriers that may affect your treatment plan and stop you and your patient getting the end result you are trying to achieve. In this podcast I will share 3 Vital Yellow Flag Questions that I now ask with every single patient and athlete that I work with. These questions will not only help you identify possible yellow flags problems… Problems that if left unaddressed can derail your treatment plan and patient progress.. But help you to tackle these yellow flag issues, all in the very first session. 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. To get a copy of Andy’s book ‘How To Become A Competent, Competent & Competitive New Grad Physio’ or to access ALL his FREE learning resources visit… www.newgradphysio.com