Every clinician has had a day when their hands were present but they were not quite there. A patient’s frightening news, a heavy story shared on the table, a loss of our own: life reaches the clinician, and when the clinician is the measurement instrument, it reaches the data too.
In this Clinical Insight, Dr Jo Abbott explores what grief and emotional load do to the human instrument, from autonomic offset to narrowed attention, and why interoception is an excellent detector of change but a poor judge of recovery. Drawing on how pilots, athletes, astronauts and military personnel declare their state, adjust the task and check themselves against a baseline, it offers an honest answer to the questions clinicians rarely ask aloud: should I stop working, and what if I can’t afford to?
It is written for manual therapists and hands-on clinicians who care deeply about their patients and want to measure honestly through life’s ups and downs. Fully referenced, with a five-step exercise, “Returning towards zero”, for difficult days.
Part of the HODA-A™ Clinical Insight Series: concise, research-informed publications on clinical observation, palpation, measurement and reasoning.
Returning Towards Zero
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Loss and emotional load change the clinician, and when the clinician is the instrument, they change the data. A humane, evidence-led guide to finding your datum again, drawing on pilots, athletes and astronauts. For hands-on clinicians; fully referenced, exercise included.
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