The Importance Of A Positive Attitude

Our team at Cairnhill Physiotherapy is highly qualified and passionate about your well being and keeping you mobile. We offer a wide range of services at our Auckland physiotherapy clinic including:

• Pain relief
• Sports injuries
• Rehabilitation
• Acupuncture
• On-site gym

Within that suite of services, we can treat and manage an extensive cross-section of issues.  But as hard as we work in helping people recover, we find that the effectiveness of our treatments is greatly enhanced when our clients adopt a positive attitude. It’s a case of our hands-on expertise and their optimistic outlook combining to achieve winning results. So, if you ever need our services bring a great attitude with you to our physio clinic in central Auckland. When you do, you’re off to a flying start.

This is something the world of physiotherapy is beginning to take very seriously. One perfect example is acute and chronic back pain where the U.K.’s Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) once focused on the role of positive thoughts in long-term pain treatment and management during its ‘Back Care Awareness Week’. If an organisation as prestigious as the CSP believes there’s something to be gained from positive thinking, then we really should sit up and take notice.

When it comes to physical recovery, it is often mental barriers that get in the way. Negative thoughts can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and this is true in all walks of life. As far as physio is concerned, a patient might be stressed out or even scared of trying specific activities, motions and skills that we suggest as part of their rehab programme. When they become frozen with this fear and don’t do as recommended, then their recovery becomes a long and slow one. How different it would be if that person took a more positive approach to their treatment and looked upon those activities and skills as good things which are designed to help them, not harm them!

As far as we’re concerned, a great attitude can be displayed in the following ways:

• Turn up to all of your physiotherapy appointments, and on time.
• Make it the highest priority to meet all of your performance goals.
• Carry on with your home exercises as recommended by our physiotherapists.
• Put in place great post-treatment lifestyle habits such as improving your posture, eating a healthier diet and getting a good night’s sleep.

The winners of this world, be they in the fields of sports, business or just life in general, have one important thing in common; a firm belief that they’ll succeed. This sort of mindset will serve you well if you require our physiotherapy treatment in Auckland. We’ll help you keep your spirits up, but you should also surround yourself with other positive thinkers, and ditch the negative ones! Call on your family and friends to act as motivators and always look ahead to the goal: no pain, increased mobility and a return to the life you were leading before your injury.