How To Get Your Doctor To Listen To You – Part 2

“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”
Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness

Welcome back to the doctor-patient communication blog post series. In Part 1, we talked about two important strategies to get your doctor to listen to you. We’ll continue that list now with two more tactics to use to be sure you are getting the best healthcare possible. Continue reading

You Just Had a Baby: 5 Communication Tips to Help You Get Your Body Back

A 2014 article published in Physical Therapy listed several barriers to exercise that pregnant women identified. Some of these obstacles included new physical limitations, a sense of exclusion at the fitness center, and lack of understanding from others. My guess is that these feelings only intensify for new moms once baby comes, creating a slew of road blocks to getting back to a place where you feel like “you” again physically. Continue reading