Answers don't always bring satisfaction

The answers don't always bring the satisfaction we expect. 🤷🏼‍♀️

As a healthcare professional, we are taught that we can diagnose a problem. And thinking back to my blog on why, we need to know the why so we can find the answer.

When it comes to the human body, and people, there's lots of variables involved. We find we spend most of our time looking for the answers that confirm what we think we already know.

For example, you come in with shoulder pain, and you have pain lifting it up to the side. My automatic assumption is going to be you have a problem in the rotator cuff.

But what if it comes from your neck or your back or something totally different, like your elbow? My job is to disprove the thing I believe, and give you options on how to get better.

We all want answers. But the answers don't always bring the satisfaction we expect. Knowing you have a rotator cuff dysfunction or a grade to sprain of your medial knee ligament, doesn't change how you feel. It doesn't suddenly make it better.

A much better approach would be when a healthcare professional will say, here are some options we could try in order to start improving the way you feel.

Teresa Waser of RX physio, came up with the acronym TIIPPSS-FC which I highly recommend you check out her Instagram page rxphysio . She talks about all the ways we can change what we're doing to influence the way we're feeling.

These give us options on how to continue doing the things we love instead of stopping.

So instead of avoiding it, let's change it. Instead of answers, let's give options.

And if you're reading this and looking for something different, I know a clinic in Belleville, Ontario. If you're not local, please reach out to me and I will give you a wealth of options of people who may be good for you.

NIcola Robertson

Registered Physiotherapist