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Originally Posted by instantneedles
how often do you get this? the first commentary?
also, to your point about meshing with your personality, do you mean physios that are outgoing and socialize with you? Or is it the type that knows what's best for you and your pain and knows what you like/don't like in terms of treatment?
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I didn't engage in the commentary about the one physio's physical features personally, but usually when a new male patient would begin there would be a couple comments among the other males. I recall overhearing comments relatively often.
I haven't socialized with any physio's outside of the clinic, but at least in my experience, more so than my relationship with any other health care provider, a certain social rapport exists between a patient and physio. A person who is injured enough to be prevented from working you'll be seeing three-four hours a week at the minimum, possibly for several months or years. The conversations with all my physio's have strayed outside of strictly medical, to discussing how are weekends were and such. In that sense, it's important to be able to have some level of a conversation. There was one older, very rough around the edges farmer, being treated my clinic who was working with a younger Asian male physio. There was noticeable tension between the two, the relationship appeared more than a bit abrasive from my perspective (it was a bit funny to watch). The old farmer got better, but I don't think either of them were ever relaxed. It's important to keep in mind, being injured stuck at home is very mentally taxing from the perspective of boredom and lack of social interaction, physio does to an extent help to fill that gap for some people.
The second part, also true. My physios have always been very receptive to my pain and understand what alleviates it, that helps a lot. If I had to remind my physio what hurt every time and what specifically helps, I would be annoyed.