Develop your clinical reasoning and patient outcomes will follow - with Mat Prior, physiotherapist

This week on Physio Foundations I spoke to Mat Prior, sports and exercise physiotherapist and lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, about the pathway from student to practitioner and then physiotherapy educator.

We spoke about the foundational knowledge and skills that Mat uses as a sports physiotherapist and the values instils in his students as a physio educator. This episode has has great tips for practitioners and physio students. Please let Mat and I know what you think and join the conversation in the YouTube comments or via social media @PerratonPhysio.

In this episode:

• 0:00 Welcome and introduction to Mat
• 3:00 Mat’s story – how he became interested in being a physio
• 4:30 Straight into private practice, or take a rotating role?
• 5:45 You don’t learn everything at university
• 7:00 How do you balance clinical work and teaching?
• 8:00 Never read the comments...  Physiotherapy is broader than your special interest area
• 10:45 Develop good processes for your assessment and treatment and patient outcomes will follow
• 13:03 The learning zone and the performance zone
• 14:03 Traffic light system for clinical decisions
• 15:12 What are the most important foundational knowledge and skills for a physio?
• 15:45 Communication, yes, but also, clinical reasoning
• 16:20 Have a clear reason for why you do your assessments and treatments
• 17:30 Know your clinical patterns
• 20:50 Why now? A great question to consider with your diagnostic reasoning and history taking
• 23:18 Running and helping runners with injuries

 

Find out more about Mat here: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/mat.prior

 

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