But it’s not RESEARCH BASED

Hello everyone!

As you all know, the internet is a wonderful land full of free knowledge and useful tips & tricks. When I created my rehabwithroni instagram years ago, my goal was to provide somewhat fun, somewhat educational content to viewers looking to learn a little more about exercise, PT life, and injury rehabilitation.

I have tons of fun creating videos that showcase interventions I use in my clinic on a daily basis while simultaneously being a weirdo so my followers get a glimpse of the person behind the PT!

One negative social media trend I’ve become more aware of is the hard push for everything and anything to be “research based”. Viewers see someone posting informative content as a personal trainer, PT, athletic trainer, etc. and go absolutely NUTS in the comments, attempting to discredit everything they’ve said or created because there isn’t a perfectly concocted randomized control trial that fully supports the efficacy of a certain exercise or treatment style.

And to that I say: relax.

In physical therapy school, they hammer research based and evidence based practice so hard into the brain you’re basically citing articles in your sleep. We graduate armed with knowledge of what “good” research is, and we recognize that it’s incredibly helpful when it comes to making informed decisions regarding your patient’s plan of care!

However, my job as a physical therapist doesn’t stop at making clinically relevant and research backed decisions. Of course, the motto is to “do no harm” first and foremost, but on top of that, I aim to meet each patient where they’re at.

If someone comes to me in excruciating low back pain, my treatment plan is going to consist of more than simply staying in the lane of researched-backed-only interventions. Do they feel better after a hot shower? Maybe we finish with a heat pack. Have they tried dry needling in the past and found relief? Maybe we’ll do that, too.

The point is, while research is a wonderful and necessary tool to prove and disprove how our profession can be relevant, your patients won’t always care about the research.

Often times, they want to feel better, get stronger, and go back to doing the activities that they love and they trust your decision making.

To reiterate - research is important. Everyone should stay up to date on it. But just make sure you’re also hearing the patient in front of you and taking into account the interventions they swear up and down have helped them in the past, regardless of how many systematic reviews and RTCs exist to support or debunk it.

Thanks :)

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