13/11/2025
A client said to me today " you know what, I prefer physio over pain tablets"
That right there made me feel so "Kwai" for the lack of a better word🤭. Don't get me wrong, there is a place for pain medication or any kind of medication for that matter in the healthcare journey. However sometimes I feel like the role of tablets supersedes everything else. When in actual fact, that is such an unhealthy approach.
Pain can be felt in the body for many different reasons. Sometimes as a warning that the body is stepping closer to a dangerous scenario. Sometimes it's to alert us that the body needs something it's not currently getting. Sometimes it's because it's in immediate danger. And sometimes it's to prove that we are still alive, still growing, still healing. That's the good kind of pain, my clients would know because that's the first thing I school them on. Not all pain is bad pain, learn to know the difference
Every scenario does not need pharmaceutical intervention. Sometimes we need to exercise, eat better, talk to someone to deal with everything that comes along with being alive and trying to thrive in a sometimes unpleasant world.
I always say to my clients, physiotherapy is a lifestyle change not a quick fix. Physiotherapy is supposed to improve your quality of life. But that requires effort, hard work, dedication and most importantly education. I love it when, over time...my clients start saying the lessons I tried to teach them back to me. It means they getting it....and they taking control of their own health and well being.
