Do you feel you have more to give but the environment you are working in is holding you back?

I bet you got into physio because you want to help people, right?

You might dream of working in a certain role in the NHS, private practice or even sport…

Sat in a Morrison’s cafe a short conversation changed my career.

I’d just started working at the Leeds Rhinos, a job I took straight from University.

For me this was already massive.

Leeds Rhinos were my boyhood team and I had just left University.

I had skipped the usual academy and part-time roles to join full-time with the first team.

Things were great but…

You do not need me to tell you how important your patient assessment is {{ subscriber.first_name }}.

The assessment is at the start for a very good reason…

Swelling is something you probably routinely look for during your knee assessments…

But what does it actually tell you?

Clearly it tells you that your patients knee is not very happy and hence swollen…

I got caught out this week with a player.

She had sustained a knee injury and it did not look great!

I was actually at the game watching and it was a little unclear to see her exact mechanism of injury.

Possibly a pivot shift, which would be a prime mechanism for an ACL…

Imagine this.

You go to see your doctor and before you even tell the doctor what has been going on…

Every week I get a lot of questions.

In the main they are from students and new grads wanting help to get better results with their patients.

Isn’t that obvious?

I’ve learnt this the hard way.

Earlier in my career working in sport I did not appreciate the important of something so simple and because of this it led me to a lot of problems.

This was in sport, and when I got it wrong and the coach took the news the wrong way…

Do you worry when a neck injury patient walks in your clinic?

Do you worry that you might miss something serious…

The knee should be a pretty straight forward joint to test.

The joint itself is relatively simple.

It’s a modified hinge joint, it flexes and extends (it also internally and externally rotates when flexed)…