Oooo. I think I need to see a physio. You know every professional sports team has a
physiotherapist and fore most they're the first person you run or hobble to if you've
got an injury. That's because they assess and treat injuries as well as trying to
prevent them from happening again. And they don't just treat sports muscular
injuries, they treat all sorts of pain and medical reasons. Well let's go try find one.
They can assist with neurological conditions,
multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries and even chest conditions like emphysema
and asthma.
I think I might have just twinged my back so I must admit my motivation for
meeting and chatting to a physiotherapist is slightly selfish.
So while we're learning with a physiotherapist actually does,
I'm hoping Renee Fish can sort my back out. You must be Renee. I am hi Jesse how are
you going?
I'm good i'm chasing a physio, do you think you can help me out? Definitely
come around this way.
What does a typical day for a physio look like? There's no typical days as a
physio. Because we treat any kind of body part, any condition as well,
depending on the patient comes in with nothing is ever the same, every patient
is individual.
We also work across at the hospital so we may see people after they've had an
operation, after they've had a baby or they've got chest problems.
Cool, so what did you want to become a physio? I had no idea
what I want to do when I graduated high school. I was looking through the
university course guides one day and I came across the physiotherapy section
how to read and thought the sounds sound like me
applied to my strength. Is there much work out before? There's a lot of work
out there, so we've got hospital, you've got community-based, you've got sports
clubs and we've got private practices, a huge range of the physiotherapy jobs out there.
And so what is the hardest part of the job?
The hardest part of the job would be knowing that some patients can't
be fixed, they can't be cured.
What they have is progressive so it's going to get worse.
I do get some comfort in knowing with those people I can in some way make
their life or their quality of life at least a little bit easier. Would that
be the most rewarding part of the job actually fixing someone?
It is yeah, knowing that
you've helped someone overcome whatever condition they had, that's definitely the
best part is when patience thank you sincerely.
So if i wanted to be a physio was one piece of advice you would give me?
I would definitely say
make sure you put the effort at uni, so make sure you study hard, it's not
an easy course but it's definitely extremely rewarding.
What characteristics does someone need to be a physio? Definitely have good
interpersonal skills
good time management skills you need to be able to motivate people.
I think the biggest ones that you need to have good problem solving and
analytical skills as well. Cool, and so from school to today
how do you get to where you are? At school it's best to kind of study
the subjects which are the prerequisites which is usually physics or human
biology.
You need to put your preferences down for your unis, once you get accepted you
can enroll and then the study starts. And so if you could end up where
you are today but do one thing differently what would that be?
Definitely be studying harder when I was at uni
yep so it would make it so much easier, less pressure on myself as well huh.
Awesome well thanks so much for talking to us today.
But yeah, I've got a bit of a sore back and how about a message?
Sure let's have a look. So there you have it.
If you're physical person, like working with people and good with your hands,
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