Each month we create and publish articles on topics which are important to us and, we hope, to you. Here's a snapshot of our education pieces throughout the both July and August 2020.
Hear what's on his mind, and don't miss his articles
Staff Spotlight - August
Mae Heard
Role: Exercise Physiologist
Location: Auckland, NZ
Mae's Ninja Skills
🐱👤 Knee rehab
🐱👤 Back rehab
🐱👤 Empathy & rapport
Mae's Faves
🍫 Food – Chocolate
👾 Exercise – Monster walks- nothing gets the bum burning like a good monster walk 🦴 Fact – The “funny bone” is neither a bone, nor funny! 🏰 Fiction – Anything Disney
💪 Myth Buster – Girls who lift weight get big! Girls who lift weights get strong and lean due to losing body fat. Generally, females don’t have the levels of testosterone than males do so building muscle size is a bit harder. Besides, muscles are sexy.
How did you survive the lockdown, and do you have any tips for the Australians?
Embrace change and learn to realise that our “normal’ is very relative.
Stay calm, positive and informed but don’t get wrapped up in the news.
Don’t underestimate the impact it makes on EVERYONE’s ment`al health and a good run here and there helps.
There’s also a supportive app called Mentemia, which supports mental health. It’s currently free for New Zealanders and Australians.
Each week, we will introduce one of us.
Naturally, we started with the man who started it all, Director Brad Domek.
For some reason, this was the most popular post across all the platforms! 😱😉
Where did he go to uni? What are his ninja skills? What's his favourite exercise? food? music?
You'll have to find out by reading the post!
And keep an eye out to meet the rest of us!
🥈 Second Place - Mae's Win
Nice work Mae! Thanks for being on our team 💪
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It was a close comp! To vote for your favourite post share, like or comment on our posts.
Behind the Scenes
We have weekly team meetings and fortnightly roundtables of challenging cases AND we run various clinical in-services regularly as well!
Here were our focuses over the last 2 months:
Internal Education
Chronic pain management, BPS vs Medical models
Special guest - live lumbar disc herniation and pain patient
Supporting RTW planning
🌟 Thankyou to Prudence Rehab for joining into roundtable some cases and solidify how EP and RP work together!
Team Focus Areas for July and August
Covid safety and management
Optimising communications with GPs
Prioritise team work with case managers and rehab providers
Recording case statistics
Focusing on the 6 domains of injured persons (physical & mental health, experience& accessibility, wellbeing, cost of healthcare, safety & quality of healthcare, provider capability, delivery & experience)
Staff Changes
Exercise Physiologist Biara Webster is now servicing South Brisbane
Auckland EP, Yolanda van Vugt is writing blogs for us. ...Let us know if there is anything you want to read about!
Did you know that we have a Sister Company in the Corporate Wellness space?
