What causes one person to respond in one way, and another to respond in another? Why can one person experience something that leaves them scarred, and yet another person can walk away from the same experience with just a story to tell? What is PTSD? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the name given […]
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A good client to therapist relationship is pure magic. For someone in the middle of a mental health crisis, recovering from a major accident, or still reeling from a life-changing disease diagnosis, recovery can be a complex, emotional and winding journey. It’s a process of coming to grips with a new reality, getting to know
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Four rounds of chemotherapy over 3 months …and this was after cancer had already eaten away 13 kg of her body! After 6+ months of cancer, cancer scans, cancer appointments, cancer treatment, and pushing through the full cancer experience, physically, mentally, emotionally, Sarah * was keen to just get back to a normal life. But
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Customer Story Flyer (Print me) Infographic (Share me) Who? Ben’s story is one that is all too familiar among the mental health clients that we see at Specialised Health. A high-stress job with 24/7 on-call hours resulted in declining health, both physically and mentally, that eventually lead Ben to a breaking point. He suffered
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“After fighting the fight of my life, taking a year and a half to recover and then having to return back to full time work, it seemed like an impossible task at times. Now looking back and after having just completed my first full week at work, I can honestly say the rehabilitation and strength
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We recommend clicking settings at the bottom of the video above and turning on subtitles. A few months ago I penned an article on Linkedin which you can see here titled “The Future for Rehabilitation?”. In it i explained Paul’s situation. Paul was a Cattle Farmer living in outback Victoria who had torn his supraspinatus tendon lifting a fencepost
Kris Scaife explains one key exercise he used to take a patient from being unable to bend and reach past her knees to doubling her sit to stand speed and being able to lift from the ground again, all at the same time as kick starting her return to work process. Enter Kris: The patient
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While this story will be most relevant for the CTP insurers out there, the Rehab Providers that are working in the CTP space and those who are working with a client who’s had an amputation, the lessons learnt in this rehab process can be wide and far reaching. Our Western Sydney Exercise Physiologist, Sebastian Cruzado,
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Meet Mark Watson and one of his very happy clients!! Mark delivers a brief overview of a knee rehabilitation program executed perfectly. Sometimes patients are quick to jump to the option of surgery when it’s recommended by their Doctor as they believe that it’s their only way forward and often they’re unaware of the recovery
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We love sharing the wins when we get a nice outcome and this is a really great one achieved through the joint work provided by Karen Stewart at BT Financial Group, James Gleeson of OnTrackOT and Specialised Health’s EP, Biara Webster. Thanks for the email Karen:
