“Stress has been pathologised and privatised, and the burden of managing it outsourced to individuals. Hence the pedlars of mindfulness step in to save the day.”
“If we are unhappy about being unemployed, losing our health insurance, and seeing our children incur massive debt through college loans, it is our responsibility to learn to be more mindful.”
“This has come about partly because proponents of mindfulness believe that the practice is apolitical, and so the avoidance of moral inquiry and the reluctance to consider a vision of the social good are intertwined.”
Patently flawed ...
“The claim that major ethical changes will follow from “paying attention to the present moment, non-judgmentally” is patently flawed. The emphasis on “non-judgmental awareness” can just as easily disable one’s moral intelligence.”
Mindfulness doublespeak...
“mindfulness thrives on doublespeak about freedom, celebrating self-centered “freedoms” while paying no attention to civic responsibility, or the cultivation of a collective mindfulness that finds genuine freedom within a co-operative and just society.
“Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek has analysed this trend. As he sees it, mindfulness is “establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism”, by helping people “to fully participate in the capitalist dynamic while retaining the appearance of mental sanity”
#Resilience
“The rhetoric of “self-mastery”, “resilience” and “happiness” assumes wellbeing is simply a matter of developing a skill. Mindfulness cheerleaders are particularly fond of this trope, saying we can train our brains to be happy, like exercising muscles.”
It’s your problem ... 🤷🏻♂️
“Societal problems rooted in inequality, racism, poverty, addiction and deteriorating mental health can be reframed in terms of individual psychology, requiring therapeutic help. Vulnerable subjects can even be told to provide this themselves.”
We’re all trapped ... (or are we?)
“We are trapped in a neoliberal trance by what the education scholar Henry Giroux calls a “disimagination machine”, because it stifles critical and radical thinking. We are admonished to look inward, and to manage ourselves.”
“... supporting the status quo while using the language of transformation. This is how neoliberal mindfulness promotes an individualistic vision of human flourishing, enticing us to accept things as they are, mindfully enduring the ravages of capitalism.
That’s got that off my chest ... 🙂
Couldn’t have put it better myself.
#Physio people may find that some (if not much of it) sounds familiar. 👂🏻
HT @beardedPT 👍
Reason 2.
You routinely assess neurological function when you encounter 1. Distal symptoms in the upper limb 2. Distal symptoms in the lower limb
It is logical therefore to do the same when it comes to the neck/head/face
Reason 3.
You will see patients who complain of post trauma/insidious onset dizziness/nausea/visual disturbances
... which may or may not be linked to CN dysfunction.
CN testing should form part of your routine risk assessment. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34182898/
2/ It is worth reflecting on the fact that most trained PT’s will assess neurological function in suspected upper limb and lower limb neurological dysfunction ... BUT NOT routinely in the cervical-cranial region.
3/ For a profession that positions itself as able ‘First Contact Practitioners’ for MSK conditions, that HAS to to be an #AFI
Serious adverse events related to cervical-cranial neurovascular dysfunction = Vision loss, Stroke or Death
#Physio#FCP ‘s
Time to brush up on your haemodynamics ✅
"We found that arterial thrombosis associated with COVID-19 infection was characterized by dire outcomes, namely strikingly increased rates of amputation and death, which in our series were 25% and 38%, respectively,"
Be aware that arterial complications will likely present as PAIN in the early stages.
There may be an exercise induced component.
That may be down to deconditioning or fatigue OR it may be due to underlying pathology.