031 - Susan Clinton - Relax, Rest, And Digest! A Special COVID-19 Episode

03/24/20 • 99 min

In this special episode, we speak to Dr Susan Clinton, physical therapist/physiotherapist extraordinaire, about how long periods of stress can affect our health and well being... and what we can do to try to combat this.

Around the globe, huge changes have been taking place since the arrival of COVID-19. Our daily routines and the simplicity of things like going to the gym or having a coffee with friends have been completely upended. We are all feeling some degree of anxiety, wondering "when will this end? How bad is it going to get?"

So we asked Susan, who has a love for the parasympathetic nervous system to come and give us some tips on how we can take care of ourselves during these difficult times.

Here are some of her thoughts in point form (we recommend listening to the whole thing though, so you can hear Susan expand on them):

1. Create a schedule
2. Break bread with friends and family eg over facetime
3. Habit stack
4. Practice self compassion (https://self-compassion.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/self-compassion.break_.mp3)
5. Find movement/exercise daily. Try and get a combination including slower forms such as tai chi or yoga.
6. Put the phone away
7. Consume alcohol on occasion only (eg for celebration, not regularly to relax or self soothe!)
8. Work on sleep hygiene. Get rid of those screens! Consider how you feel when you wake up in the morning.

We also had a great chat about children and how we can model some of those behaviours for our own kids during this period of homeschooling.

This was a wonderful chat and we are grateful for Susan sharing her time and compassion during this time.

You can find Susan at:
https://embody-pt.com/
https://www.thegeniusptproject.com/
https://toughtotreat.com/

So we asked Susan, who has a love for the parasympathetic nervous system to come and give us some tips on how we can take care of ourselves during these difficult times.

Here are some of her thoughts in point form (we recommend listening to the whole thing though, so you can hear Susan expand on them):

We also had a great chat about children and how we can model some of those behaviours for our own kids during this period of homeschooling.

This was a wonderful chat and we are grateful for Susan sharing her time and compassion during this time.

You can find Susan at:
https://embody-pt.com/
https://www.thegeniusptproject.com/
https://toughtotreat.com/

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030 - Jilly Bond - Can Bladders Be Happy? Part 2 of 2

In this episode, we get to talk to the amazing Jilly Bond.

We talked about Pelvic Pain - in particular

Bladder Pain Syndrome,
A biopsychosocial approach and why (and some of the how) we deal with the psychosocial side of things within our scope of practice,
Virtual consultations,
How to manage burnout
- Jilly shares her own story about this as well as the difficulties of COVID-19 for her right now, and
Coffee!

The content was so epic, we had to break it down into 2 episodes!

Jilly Bond is a pelvic health Physiotherapist based in Wales, UK, with a specialist interest in pelvic pain. She is a regular speaker at international conferences, runs professional development courses for physios in the UK and online and her Youtube channel has free resources for patients and clinicians. Her research interests include understanding how graded motor imagery may help in the treatment of centralised mechanisms in visceral pain. If you're interested in pelvic pain she'd love to hear from you.

You can find Jilly in many ways, outline below:

Website - http://www.JillyBond.com

Email - [email protected]

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JillyBondPhysio/

Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/jilly_bond

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jillybondphysio/

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032 - Maggie Bergeron - Telehealth, Embodia, And Their Amazing Offering!

In this episode, Antony talks with Maggie Bergeron, the co-founder of Embodia.

Antony and Maggie were messaging after having done the #PTTogether Episode 2 webinar earlier (available free on Embodia!). Anyway, Maggie mentioned she was up late because she had been busy doing support during this busy time with all the changes with COVID-19 and there had been some technical hiccups with their transition from Zoom for Business to Zoom for Healthcare...

...and so Antony, ever the questioner, had to ask why they were moving to Zoom for Healthcare since they are an education company!

Listen to the episode for the details but the bottom line is that subscription members of Embodia have access to unlimited free 40mins Zoom for Healthcare consults including bookings and sending home exercise program videos! And they are simply passing on the cost if you want longer than 40mins!

That's unbelievably good value considering Zoom for healthcare for one person would cost at least 10 times that amount of money!

So please take advantage of the fact that you can contact Maggie and ask any questions you need to.

Please note that NO COMMISSIONS OR PAYMENT was received for this podcast. Antony thought it was a great initiative and wanted to share this with you all.

Maggie Bergeron is a registered physiotherapist who received her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from McMaster University in 2009 after completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Ottawa.

Maggie co-founded Embodia in 2014 to modernize the patient experience and to provide a simple, easy way to take continuing education courses to all physiotherapists and rehabilitation practitioners, regardless of their location, budget or area of practice.

Maggie is also the host of HealthTO - a health technology event that brings together 200 health tech enthusiasts bi-monthly to network, learn, and collaborate. She has been an invited speaker at Universities, technology symposiums and healthcare conferences across Canada. Maggie currently serves as a mentor, placement host and holds a Status-Only Appointment (lecturer ranking) with the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Toronto.

Outside of work, Maggie enjoys travelling, rock climbing and attempting to play ultimate frisbee.

You can contact Maggie at Embodia via the links below:

www.embodiaapp.com
www.instagram.com/embodia
www.facebook.com/embodia