• The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

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The Words Matter Podcast with Oliver Thomson

By: Oliver Thomson
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  • The Words Matter Podcast brings you insights, reflections and conversations focused on the latest evidence, theory, philosophy and practice of communication-focused healthcare. Find out about the more tacit, 'softer' and personal side of clinical practice such as the role of philosophy, beliefs, behaviours, developing therapeutic relationships or the purposeful use of language with people experiencing pain from expert academics, clinicians and researchers from across the world and spanning the musculoskeletal disciplines. This podcast will help you reflect on your own current practice and inform and stimulate you to consider new ways of approaching your practice and patients, to create a better clinical experience and outcomes in people with musculoskeletal pain. Hosted by Dr Oliver Thomson PhD, an osteopath and Associate Professor who is passionate about researching and educating clinicians on a revised narrative, communication and biopsychosocial approach to musculoskeletal therapy. If you like the podcast, subscribe and check out the online learning and resources at www.wordsmatter-education.com. Support the show and become a patron https://www.patreon.com/thewordsmatterpodcast
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  • Ask Me Anything #6

    Ask Me Anything #6
    Nov 17 2022

    Welcome to another episode of The Words Matters Podcast.

    Many of you may be familiar with a recent paper I was proud to co-author titled: Avoiding nocebo and other undesirable effects in chiropractic, osteopathy and physiotherapy: An invitation to reflect – Journal of MSK Science and Practice.

    We are very keen to engage the readership in this topic and are inviting readers and listeners of the podcast to critically reflect on the paper and submit questions and comments for a future podcast discussion. Your comments, questions can be submitted via the link here.

    On this Ask Me Anything I give my thoughts on the following questions:

    • How to teach BPS model & clinical reasoning in academic settings?
    • Should MSK practitioners do a degree in psychology?
    • How do you organise your evaluation & treatment within/between sessions?
    • What do you wish knew when you started/you best advice to students?
    • What are the best and worst papers you've read? (spoiler here and here are two of my favourites)
    • Do you crack people’s necks?
    • How do you balance views as a constructionist/relativist stance with objectively implausible claims?
    • What are your thoughts on reassurance and the recent discussion on Twitter? (here)

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    If you liked the podcast, you'll love The Words Matter online course and mentoring to develop your clinical expertise - ideal for all MSK therapists.

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    40 mins
  • The Outsiders - Clinicians divorced from their profession with Eliud Sierra

    The Outsiders - Clinicians divorced from their profession with Eliud Sierra
    Oct 20 2022

    Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast.

    Apologies for the slight delay in the episode, work and life events continue to get in the way of my passion for producing these conversations.

    So it’s time for another Outsider episode (see prior Outsider episodes here, here, here and here), where I talk with clinicians that feel divorced from their profession and don’t identify with their professional label and the professionally assumed meaning of that label.

    And on this episode I’m speaking with Eliud Sierra. Eliud is an evidence-based chiropractor who specialises in physical rehabilitation and chronic pain management through strength and conditioning focused treatments. Many of you may be familiar with him via Instagram, with his handle The_Rehab_Chiro – which amongst sharing evidence informed messaging also provides his critical and often humorous thoughts on chiropractic.

    Eliud works in the U.S. within in a private clinic located in the city of Chicago . As an undergraduate student, Eliud attended the University of Iowa where we worked in the physical therapy department of the medical college, aiding in research regarding spinal cord injury patients.

    After the University of Iowa, Eliud went on to attend Palmer College of Chiropractic where he got his doctor of chiropractic degree and founded the school’s first evidence-based club. In his professional career, Eliud has worked with a wide array of individuals ranging from elite athletes to post-surgical patients.

    So it was great to speak with Eliud, as you will hear we share a common experience of leaving via choice or through force a Facebook group of our respective professions and it fun to exchange the reasons and context around that.

    Support the podcast and contribute via Patreon here

    If you liked the podcast, you'll love The Words Matter online course and mentoring to develop your clinical expertise - ideal for all MSK therapists.

    Follow Words Matter on:

    Instagram @Wordsmatter_education @TheWordsMatterPodcast

    Twitter @WordsClinical

    Facebook Words Matter - Improving Clinical Communication

    ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    1 hr
  • Sociology for practice - the 'ology' you’ve been looking for with Dr Rebecca Olson

    Sociology for practice - the 'ology' you’ve been looking for with Dr Rebecca Olson
    Sep 27 2022
    Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast.I hope you’ve enjoyed the last couple of episodes exploring pseudoscientific claims and how to think about, and respond to them (here and here). And to give us all a break from the frustration, today I’m speaking with Dr Rebecca Olson about the role and value of sociology for practice.Rebecca is an Associate Professor of Sociology, and Program Director of the Bachelor of Social Science at the University of Queensland. She’s Director of SocioHealthLab: a research collective that pursues social transformation in health and healthcare through theory- and justice-led applied socio-cultural research.As a translational qualitative researcher, Rebecca collaborates with health professionals, health professional educators and emotions scholars, bringing sociological insight to addressing complex healthcare challenges.And Rebecca follows in the growing line of guests based at UQ including Karime Mescouto (Episode 39: Where’s does the power lie? A critical look at the biopsychosocial model), Jenny Setchell (Episode 50: The Qualitative Research Series - What’s left in the ruins? Post qualitative research) and more recently Nathalia Costa (Episode 68: The Clinical Reasoning Series – Navigating uncertainty).So on this episode we speak about:The distinction between sociology and social science, and where sociology sits in the landscape of intellectual enquiry.Rebecca introduces sociology as a research field and how she (and others) have engaged with it in relation to healthcare.We talk about medical sociology and the development of related methodologies such as grounded theory (see here and here) and ethnographic research (see episode 45 for more ethnography).The importance and value of sociological theory for practice – and we talk about how there is nothing like a good theory to offer a rich perspective and multiple lenses on clinical practice.And we also talk about what social theories are and where they come from.We distinguish between the natural world and the social world.We talk about the irony that while social factors and determinants of health seem to be important in understanding and predicting illness and recovery, yet sociological knowledge is does not feature strongly in healthcare education and practice.And finally we talk about what can we learn from sociological enquiry and how it can inform practice and policy.So I really loved this conversation with Rebecca. As clinicians we seem to be very happy and comfortable with the other ‘ologies’ – such as biology, physiology and neurology so I hope that this conversation is a gateway to explore how sociology can support and guide clinical thinking and practice.Find Rebecca on Twitter @RebeccaEOlsonSupport the podcast and contribute via Patreon hereIf you liked the podcast, you'll love The Words Matter online course and mentoring to develop your clinical expertise - ideal for all MSK therapists.Follow Words Matter on:Instagram @Wordsmatter_education @TheWordsMatterPodcastTwitter @WordsClinicalFacebook Words Matter - Improving Clinical Communication ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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    58 mins
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