Carla de Beer Physiotherapy

18/01/2025

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20/11/2024

25/01/2024

Be mindful when it comes to your words! Let’s focus on the postive!! 💡🤩

Why do we tend to find faults with patients rather than point out positives? 🤔
I once saw a consultant about hand pain, he arranged an x-ray and said my joints were ‘pristine’. Not ‘age related changes’, ‘ok’ or even ‘normal’ but PRISTINE! That word was so positive and reassuring it really stuck with me. It made me think too - why don’t we tend to point out positives to our patients?
We often hear, “my physio said I have terrible posture” or “I’ve been told I’m not moving properly”. Why don’t we hear, “my physio said I’m in great shape” or “I’ve been told my legs are really strong!”?
So I think it’s time we actively looked for positives in our assessments and told the patient about them! When we identify rehab targets like loss of strength, range or control they can become solutions:
Weak ➡️ some strength exercises will improve that
Stiff/ tight ➡️ that will feel better once we get it moving more
Poor balance/ unstable ➡️ you’ll feel more strong and stable with some balance work
What do you like to say to your patients? Let me know in the replies🗣️

14/10/2023

💥 Free PROtalks Webinar

👉 This webinar is intended for health professionals and will include a discussion about earlier books in the Treat Your Own series of McKenzie Method books, focusing primarily on the newly published Treat Your Own Ankle & Achilles Tendon. The discussion with include a description of the key components related to education and self-management strategies for the reader, based on the background literature.

✅ Topics covered will include the importance of initially excluding serious pathologies and screening the spine. Strategies related to acute management, directional preference and proprioceptive exercises for the ankle, and graduated loading for the Achilles tendon will also be discussed, in relation to functional recovery as the basis for injury prevention. There will be ample time for questions.

11/10/2023

There are lots of potential causes of anterior knee pain! The common ones you’ll encounter in clinic are included in this graphic but there are a couple of important points to add…
Pain location alone is not sufficient to reach a diagnosis. Symptoms can vary significantly in patients with the same injury or pathology.
Not every pain will fit a neat diagnostic box and some presentations may be a mix of more than one source of symptoms.
We can’t always blame ‘issues in the tissues’, pain is more complex than that. Whatever diagnosis you form never forget the person with the pain and be careful to explain it to them in a way that they can understand that reduces fear and helps them manage it successfully.
Please like and share this if you find it helpful and tag in a friend who might interested.
Lastly, I have a question for you… how would these differential diagnoses change your treatment of someone with knee pain? For example, would you manage Patellofemoral Pain the same way as Patellar Tendinopathy? Let me know in the comments 🗣️

20/06/2023

https://youtu.be/UzSi_C2BA_M

I speak a lot about lymphatic drainage on my channel. I explain the traditional method of manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) that's been used for many decades. ...

29/01/2023

Exercise plays an important role in the management of lymphedema 🧘🏻‍♀️🚴🏼‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️🏃🏼‍♀️

A well-balanced exercise program in combination with other treatment options used in the management for lymphedema is an important component to reduce the swelling, and a vital tool for patients to continue with normal activities of daily living.
https://www.lymphedemablog.com/2022/08/17/the-role-of-various-exercise-modalities-in-the-treatment-of-lymphedema/

18/07/2022

Easy and important exercise everyone should be doing: 💪🏼

Whether you're 20 or 80, this is one shoulder exercise everyone should do. Find a weight that feels like a reasonable challenge and get started on the most i...

03/07/2022

The facts regarding SCIATICA ⚡️

What are the facts? We can easily be overwhelmed due to information overload There is so much information out there on Sciatica that it can leave a client/patient more confused, frustrated and overwhelmed than ever. For well-meaning professionals (trainers, coaches and clinicians alike) the overwhel...

03/05/2022

Exercises to help decrease tension between shoulder blades 🏋🏼

Learn how to get rid of knots between your shoulder blades. I'll show you simple shoulder exercises that release knots between your blades. These are especia...

29/03/2022

Do you suffer from shoulder impingement? 💥 Watch the following link:

👉 What is shoulder impingement & how to fix it?[READ MORE]: https://www.gotrom.com/blog/shoulder-impingement-explained😭 In 2008 I had bad shoulder impingem...