Hello

I found myself working in mental health physio many years ago purely by happy accident and became intrigued by the additional layer of complication the mental health problem often created for the clinician. This could be in the adaptation needed with how the session was provided or in the difficulty rehabbing what should be a simple MSK problem when the person has something like depersonalisation.
Patients may present what should be a minor physical problem as causing them a very high level of distress. How do we communicate that this physical problem may not be as severe as they believe especially when the person may have a distrust of health professionals? We become used to people believing what we say because we have a job title and a uniform. But what if that makes the person less likely to believe what we are saying? What do we rely on now? Do we have other strategies? Are we able to adapt to different patients and be whom they need us to be to help them? These were the sorts of areas I became interested in.
In addition to my own experience I spent many hours interviewing experienced staff and digging into the minutiae of what we do. And presenting the ideas to invite discussion. The outcome is the ideas and strategies in this website.