Essential Skills for Physiotherapists, 1st Edition

• Provides actionable, practical advice on essential soft skills - an invaluable tool to enhance your practice and career
• Encompasses core principles of interpersonal skills that are often not covered in academic courses and clinical experience
• Packed with stories and anecdotes from various experts in real-life work scenarios, as well as tailored networking techniques for today's healthcare professionals
• Research-backed content, innovative methods, and high-level academic rigor to improve your own high performance and wellbeing
• Reflective key points and introspective questions to facilitate deeper understanding and useable takeaways
• Contributions from TLP mentors and students with experience in professional sport environments, private practice, public healthcare, research, and academia

In the relentless pursuit of healing, amidst therapy rooms and locker rooms, and the battles against pain, one truth stands unwavering: mastery of these essential skills is the linchpin between a physiotherapist’s ambition and their patients’ recovery. Enjoy diving into this journey of personal and professional transformation with Essential Skills for Physiotherapists: A Personal and Professional Development Framework, where the path to excellence begins, one skill at a time.

As Seth Godin, New York Times best-selling author of ‘Purple Cow’ and ‘The Dip’ and marketing thought leader said – "Let’s stop calling them soft skills. They’re real skills. And, they’re learnable".

SECTION I Wellbeing
1. Your Wellbeing
2. Purpose and Values
3. Habits – Sleep, Nutrition and Recovery

SECTION II Relationships
4. Better Communication – Intentional Listening, Empathy and Feedback
5. Seeking Mentorship Consistently and Network Building
6. Cohesive Working

SECTION III Career Mapping
7. Curiosity, Learning and Reflection
8. Goals and Motivation
9. Personal Brand Design

SECTION IV Performance
10. Mental Fitness – Resilience and Facing Challenges
11. High Performance – Leading Yourself and Others With Purpose
12. Life/Work Alignment
13. Dealing With Stress

SECTION V Journeys
14A Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Wayne Diesel
14B Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Ian Horsley
14C Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Ritchie Barber
14D Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Deepak Agnihotri
14E Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Evert Verhagen
14F Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Roisin McNulty
14G Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Evangelos Benatos and Andreas Gatzoulis
14H Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Chris Jones
14I Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Jacopo Mattaini
14J Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Carl Gombrich

Closing Remarks – Putting It All Together
Index

David Clancy, MSc, BSc, HC, MISCP, CORU, Sports Medicine Specialist and Consultant; Co-Founder and Director, The Nxt Level Group, Dublin, Ireland; Co-Founder and Director, Hauora, Dublin, Ireland; Co-Founder and Director, The Learning Physiotherapist, Dublin, Ireland, Stuart Porter, PhD, CertMHS, SFHEA, MLACP, MCSP, HCPC, Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Salford, Manchester, UK; Health and Care Professions Council Registered, Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy, Expert Witness, Manchester, UK, Jeff Konin, PhD, ATC, PT, FACSM, FNATA, FNAP, Clinical Professor and Director of DAT Program, Florida International University, Miami, USA, Amelia J. H. Arundale, PhD, DPT, BSc, PT, Senior Performance Therapist and Biomechanist at the Washington Wizards, Washington DC, USA; Adjunct Professor, Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, USA, Grant Downie, OBE, GradDip, MCSP, HCPC, Medical and Performance Solutions Consultant, Elite Human Performance,Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK; Varying sporting organisations/brands and national governing bodies globally Isle of Arran, Scotland, UK and Ciaran Dunne, MSc, MSc, BSc, PGCert, MISCP, CORU, Health & Performance Specialist and Consultant, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Mater Private Network, Dublin, Ireland; Co-Founder and Director, Hauora, Dublin, Ireland; Co-Founder and Director, The Learning Physiotherapist, Dublin, Ireland