Welcome to another episode of The Words Matters Podcast. Many of you may be familiar with a recent paper I was proud to co-author titled: Avoiding nocebo and other undesirable effects in chiropractic, osteopathy and physiotherapy: An invitation to reflect – Journal of MSK Science and Practice. We are very keen to engage the readership in this topic and are inviting readers and listeners of the podcast to critically reflect on the paper and submit questions and comments for a future podcast discu...
Nov 17, 2022•40 min•Ep. 76
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Apologies for the slight delay in the episode, work and life events continue to get in the way of my passion for producing these conversations. So it’s time for another Outsider episode (see prior Outsider episodes here , here , here and here ), where I talk with clinicians that feel divorced from their profession and don’t identify with their professional label and the professionally assumed meaning of that label. And on this episode I’m s...
Oct 20, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 75
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. I hope you’ve enjoyed the last couple of episodes exploring pseudoscientific claims and how to think about, and respond to them ( here and here ). And to give us all a break from the frustration, today I’m speaking with Dr Rebecca Olson about the role and value of sociology for practice. Rebecca is an Associate Professor of Sociology, and Program Director of the Bachelor of Social Science at the University of Queensland. She’s Director of S...
Sep 27, 2022•58 min•Ep. 74
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. It seems like the last episode with Dave Newell and Jack Chew was necessary; the feedback by and large was supportive, but clearly you cannot please everyone and for some people there is no argument, reason or evidence (let alone a podcast) that will ever initiate a reflection or reconsideration of their position and beliefs. So as promised, I’ve continued to explore these issues and today I’m speaking with Dr Carlo Martini about pseudoscie...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 73
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So it’s been a pretty action packed few weeks on social media; for those of you that have not been following there was a storm in a pericardial tea cup - for my thoughts on the saga visit my Instagram bio where there's an Instagram live video. It was a rather unique experience, so the researcher in me wants to describe the situation, understand the antecedent conditions and get some purchase on the underlying beliefs and intentions when col...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 72
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Sorry for the slight hiatus; COVID and general life caught up with me – but I’m pleased to be on top of them both and bring you the final episode of the clinical reasoning series . The series really has been incredible – to have 10 episodes totalling over 10 hours of long-form discussion with guests that have such a depth of expertise and insight into their respective domains of clinical reasoning is just wonderful – I very much hope and th...
Jul 27, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 71
Welcome to another episode of the Words Matter Podcast. So we are at the penultimate episode of the clinical reasoning series and I hope you’ve enjoyed it and much as I have. In the final episode I’ll be chatting with Matthew Low where we will be reflecting on the series as a whole and tying up any loose ends in regards to what this all means for clinical practice. Matt is a good friend of the podcast and he’s been on several times taking about evidence-based practice ( listen here ), person-cen...
Jun 29, 2022•20 min•Ep. 70
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. We have reached the final few episodes of the clinical reasoning series ; and I hope you have enjoyed the journey up to this point. This series and the podcast more broadly is made possible by all the Patreon support , and ever a huge thank you for those supporting the show and to those listening and sharing the podcast with your friends, colleagues and students. On this episode I’m speaking with Dr Elena Rocca and Dr Saúl Pérez-González ab...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 69
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So we are up to the 8th episode of the Clinical Reasoning Series and on today I’m speaking with Dr Nathalia Costa about clinical uncertainty. Nathalia is a Brazilian physiotherapist who completed PhD studies in Australia used mixed-methods to investigate the nature of low back pain flares (see here ). This PhD work was won the Lumbar Spine Research Prize awarded by the Society for Study of the Lumbar Spine in 2021 (see Nathalia's other rese...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 68
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. If you're enjoying the Clinical Reasoning Series and the podcast more generally, please consider supporting the show via Patreon . You can pledge as little as a pound or a couple of dollars per episode. Your support really makes a difference and helps ensure the quality and regularity of the episodes. Following on my previous episodes in the series with Bjørn Hofmann ( here and here ) where we spoke about the ethics of disease and the moral...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 67
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. In this episode of the clinical reasoning series , I’m speaking with Sanja Maretic. Sanja is an osteopath who works in a non-traditional osteopathic role as a pain clinician in the pain management service. Sanja has a background in humanities and passion for the intersection between healthcare and humanities and as such she published a qualitative study titled “Understanding patients' narratives” A qualitative study of osteopathic educators...
Apr 21, 2022•58 min•Ep. 66
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. A quick note to thank all of you that support the podcast via Patreon, your contributions make a big difference (contribute here ). We’re about halfway through the clinical reasoning series and today I’m speaking with Dr Euson Yeung. Euson is a physiotherapist and an Assistant Professor in the department of Physical Therapy University of Toronto. His primary area of teaching and research interest is in orthopaedic manual therapy as well as ...
Apr 07, 2022•42 min•Ep. 65
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. A quick note to thank all of you that support the podcast via Patreon, your contributions make a big difference (contribute here ). So we are into episode four of the clinical reasoning series , and I continue my conversation with philosopher of medicine Prof. Bjørn Hofmann where we develop our discussion which started on the ethical implications of disease in the previous episode to now moves on to overdiagnosis and medicalisation. And for...
Mar 24, 2022•46 min•Ep. 64
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. We continue the clinical reasoning series, and I hope you enjoyed the first two episodes with Roger Kerry and Mark Jones where we covered how we can think about our practice, evidence and our patients. However, given that the series is exploring clinicians’ reasoning around people with disease, it would seem prudent to consider what disease is both as a concept and phenomena but also the ethical and moral issues tied to and emanating from i...
Mar 10, 2022•50 min•Ep. 63
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So we continue on the clinical reasoning series , and on this episode I’m speaking with Mark Jones. And if you haven’t already listened to the previous episode in the series “Do clinicians think link scientists” with Roger Kerry , I suggest you take a listen as my conversation with Mark builds nicely from there. Mark is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the University of South Australia with 35 years’ experience teaching undergraduate and postg...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 62
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Thanks to all of you that support the podcast via Patreon , it means so much and really helps the podcast grow. If you’d like to support the podcast for as little as a pound or a couple of dollars per episode ( here ). I’m taking a break from the Outsider episodes to explore the area of clinical reasoning, and to kick off the series I’m speaking with Dr Roger Kerry, whom I chatted with on the podcast last year in episode 35 where we discuss...
Feb 10, 2022•52 min•Ep. 61
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As usual, thank you to all the support via Patreon – every pledge is hugely appreciated. So I did say that the previous episode with Rob Jonah would be the last outsider episode for a while, in order to make way for the clinical reasoning series. However, there’s time for one more and I’m delighted to squeeze this one in before Dr Roger Kerry kicks off the Clinical Reasoning Series where we talk about sciencey thinking in the context of evi...
Jan 26, 2022•42 min•Ep. 60
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As always, a huge thank you to those of you supporting the podcast via Patreon – you help enable these conversations to become possible. f you’d like to contribute you can visit Patreon.com/thewordsmatterpodcast – every little helps. So, on this episode I’m continuing with the Outsider Series where I speak with clinicians who feel they’re outsiders of their profession; sharing their experiences, struggles and how things could maybe change. ...
Jan 12, 2022•45 min•Ep. 59
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. On this episode I’m continuing with the Outsider Series where I speak with clinicians who feel they’re divorced from their profession, and share their experiences, struggles and how things could change. And today I’m speaking with Aaron Kubal. Aaron is a chiropractor in the United States who works with people experiencing pain via telehealth exclusively. He has developed a large social media followin g, which he uses to advocate for evidenc...
Dec 27, 2021•45 min•Ep. 58
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As always, a huge thank you to those of you supporting the podcast via Patreon – you help enable these conversations to become possible. f you’d like to contribute you can visit Patreon.com/thewordsmatterpodcast – every little helps. Before we start I want to mention that a good friend of the podcast, Dave Nicholls who I spoke to on episodes 21 and 51 has a new book coming out titled Physiotherapy Otherwise , which is a follow up to his phe...
Dec 11, 2021•20 min•Ep. 57
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As always, a big thank you to those of you supporting the podcast via Patreon – really takes the edge of the cost of producing these two-weekly episodes, so thank you. The line-up for the upcoming clinical reasoning series is being finalise, covering topics such as ethics or disease, values based-practice and reasoning, thinking narratively, embodied reasoning plus cognitive perspectives such as hypothetic-deductive reasoning, pattern recog...
Nov 26, 2021•30 min•Ep. 56
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Once again, a huge thank you to those you that support the show via Patreon – every pledge helps, so a big warm thank you. The response to the recent episodes and the qualitative research series has been immense – it seems like the podcast is rippling through the lives of more and more people. I think we’re approaching 60,000 downloads since the podcast started 18 months ago or so. Coming up on the podcast I have series on clinical reasonin...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 55
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. So this is part 2 of my conversation with philosopher and epistemologist Dr Carlo Martini , discussion the nature of expertise and how we recognise the associated attributes of an expert. If you haven’t listened to the first part of our conversation, go back and listen to that first so that this episode makes more sense. So in this episode we speak about: The two dimensions to medical communication and we distinguish between scientific misi...
Oct 27, 2021•32 min•Ep. 54
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Once again, I want to start by thanking everyone that supports the podcast via Patreon – your contribution makes a huge difference to the quality and regularity of the episodes. So if you want to pledge a pound, euro or dollar to each episode please visit The Words Matter Podcast Patreon page ; if not that’s fine – please enjoy the episodes and share far and wide. In this episode I’m speaking with Dr Carlo Martini. Carlo is Associate Profes...
Oct 13, 2021•55 min•Ep. 53
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As usual, I want to start by thanking everyone that supports the show via Patreon and for those of you that share the podcast. The growth of the podcast over the past 6 months has been incredible, and I’m frequently getting messages from people across the globe and professional and academic landscape saying how much they’ve enjoyed the conversations – so a sincere thank you. Like many of you, I’ve had a bit of a break over the summer and ho...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 52
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Episode. As usual I want to start by thanking all of you that are supporting the podcast via Patreon, your contributions all add up and make these conversations possible. If you’d like to contribute you can visit Patreon.com/thewordsmatterpodcast – every little helps. So, we’re at the closing ceremony of The Qualitative Research Series. I hope you’ve enjoyed the episodes. I want to thank all my guests, that were incredibly generous with their time, ...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 51
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. As usual I want to start by thanking all of you that are supporting the show via Patreon , it really makes a difference - so thanks again. So after seven episodes exploring qualitative research and the value of it’s methodologies and methods, it’s now time to dismantle all of that and talk about everything that’s wrong with qualitative research and why we should move beyond it! I’m only half joking….because on this episode of the Qualitativ...
Aug 17, 2021•57 min•Ep. 50
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Thanks again to all of you that are supporting the podcast via Patreon – your support is making these episodes and this qualitative research series possible. And you can visit the Patreon here if you’d like to support the show. So, we’re up to episode seven of this qualitative research series, and today I’m speaking with Dr Anna Rajala about critical theory . Anna originally trained as a Physiotherapist (Pirkanmaa University of Applied Scie...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 49
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. Again, I want to start by thanking all of you that are supporting the podcast via Patreon – its hugely appreciated and keeps the episodes flowing. So we have reached episode 6 of the qualitative series, flying high above the different methodologies and occasionally landing to get a deeper sense of their philosophies, theories and methods. Today I am excited to speak with not just one, but two phenomenologists to give us a really rich view o...
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 48
Welcome to another episode of The Words Matter Podcast. I’ll again start by thanking all of you that support the show via Patreon – it really makes these conversations possible, and it's fantastic to see a growing community of researchers, students and practitioners support the show and find value in the episodes. If you’d like to show your support for the podcast, you can pledge as little as £1 per episode by visiting Patreon here. So, we're half way into the Qualitative Research Series, and to...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 47
