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Function over fashion

Jack explains how fashions, fads and trends have, and continue to dominate MSK healthcare through evangelised modality based treatments, restrictive practice models and even career pathways. He proposes that putting function at the heart of our practice, on every level, will revolutionise evidence informed care and make Physios a credible force in healthcare. Be warned though, his concerns regarding what happens if we don’t take this opportunity bleed out in his conclusion as he asks ‘If not us then who? And if not now, then when? Read more ↓
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Lurching From Fashion to Fashion in Physiotherapy

How physiotherapy has moved from one fashion to the next, from manual therapy and taping to Pilates and strength and conditioning, and why function, taking a person from where they are to where they want to be, should sit at the center.

13:06
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Mechanisms, Reasoning and Interaction Behind Function-First Care

The foundations of a function-first model: understanding mechanisms, using reasoning instead of ideology, and interacting well with patients and colleagues, illustrated with a single-leg squat example and the balance between objective and lived experience.

21:49
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Revealing the Whole Picture in a Knee Case, and a Call to Arms

A jigsaw metaphor for a knee case shows how improving strength, understanding, fitness and pain sensitivity can still leave the most important factor hidden, followed by a road metaphor and a call to put function ahead of fashion.

12:14

Learning objectives

> You should be able to describe the foundations of the "function over fashion"-approach.

> You should be able to discuss some of the foundations that Chew talks about in this lecture.  

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