Dear Colleagues
Welcome to the Spring 2022 newsletter.
In this edition we pay tribute to Uffe Lindstrom who recently passed away. Uffe was Chairman of the MII Board of Trustees from 2012 to 2018 and played a major role in guiding MII after the passing of Robin McKenzie.
Other features of this edition include a recent publication, ‘Meet a Member’, and an update on MDT supportive studies.
Although Covid-19 is still ever present, MIA is gradually transitioning back to ‘in person’ courses. Keep a watch on the website for where and when upcoming courses are to be held.
Finally, if you’ve seen an interesting or challenging patient recently, we’d love to hear from you and help you put together a case study to share in a future newsletter.
And as always, don’t forget you can access online education via the MDT Case Manager, at any time.
Take care
Mark Cheel
Chairperson / Faculty
It is with great sadness that I have to inform you all that Uffe Lindstrom died on Friday 22 July. He passed away peacefully following an illness.
Uffe obtained his Diploma in MDT in 1994. As well as an MDT clinician he was a driving force in establishing the Danish Branch. He was Chairman of the Danish Branch from 1994 to 2007. He served on the Board of the International MDT Research Foundation between 2002 and 2009. Most significantly he was Chairman of the MII Board of Trustees from 2012 till 2018.
During this time, he focused on upgrading several of the Institute’s business practices including the development of the Institute’s Strategic plan. He provided support for several of our Branches and created our Strategic Council. He was very involved in his responsibilities within the Institute, and he invested a great deal of time and energy into MII.
His contributions to MII were considerable and he was a close friend to many within the Institute.
Our thoughts go out to his wife Charlotte and his two children. On your behalf I will be contacting his family and expressing our condolences.
Colin Davies
Chairman of the MII Board of Trustees
There is a wealth of research and literature on the McKenzie Method with much of it related to the spine and increasing amounts related to the extremities. Thanks to Richard Rosedale (Canada) and Robert Medcalf (USA), this update provides an overview of studies supportive of MDT; which can be very useful when promoting the benefits of the MDT approach to your patients, colleagues and medical practitioners.
Click the link to access the Overview of MDT Supportive studies.
For a more detailed list of MDT related research, visit the MII website: https://mckenzieinstitute.org/clinicians/research-and-resources/reference-list/
We are pleased to announce that you can now access a video recording of the 2022 Education Weekend.
A full recording of the Seminar Day and a partial recording (due to technical difficulties ☹) of the Update Day are available.
For those who registered for the Seminar Day, details to access this recording have been emailed recently. For those who did not register, the video recording is available for purchase via the MIA Online Shop.
CPD Points: Viewing of the recordings is eligible for 1 MDT CPD point for those who didn’t attend on the day - please log as an Independent Activity on your CPD tracker. Those who attended one or both days of the 2022 Education Weekend have been allocated their CPD points.
Adelaide West Physio + Pilates | Headache Clinic
Tells us about your current work
Most of my work these days is helping headache and migraine sufferers, having been a generalist for most of my career. We have a clinic that has 5 other physios who are all keen on MDT and have done at least Part B. We keep the MDT philosophies and methods always part of the conversation, which is the advantage to working in a place where there are plenty of us on the same page.
How did you start on your ‘McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy (MDT)’ journey?
I worked in Mildura with a physio who was a New Zealander. He used a fairly bastardised version of certain parts of McKenzie which was enough to make me interested in finding out more. I finally did Part A in 1998 and it just went from there!
How has the McKenzie Method influenced your clinical practice?
The biggest change (and the biggest hurdle) was moving away from pathoanatomical thinking. Coming from exclusively Maitland training, that was quite a challenge! The McKenzie Method and 'trusting the process' opened up a whole new world of patient understanding and patient expectations.
What challenges have you faced over the last few years, due to COVID 19? How have you overcome these?
The main challenges have been keeping our staff safe, managing their anxieties and creating an environment where people will feel safe enough to come in the clinic. And financially keeping our head above water! We have overcome this with over-communicating to everyone - staff and patients.
Knowing what you know now, what piece of advice would you give your younger self?
Don't be afraid to ask for help or admit what you don't know. It's not a sign of weakness. And you don't have to do everything yourself.
What's your favourite quote and why?
“I think there is a great beauty to having problems. It's one of the ways we learn” Herbie Hancock
I like the idea that you learn more from mistakes and failing than successes, it has helped me to reframe all the little obstacles in life.
Adriaan Louw, Kevin Farrell , Anthony Nielsen, Max O'Malley , Terry Cox, Emilio J Puentedura
Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy. 2022 Jun 23;1-7.
The mechanisms behind the changes in a patient’s baselines during and after treatment are not necessarily well understood. Keeping in mind this was a pilot study, do you think it’s possible that some of the clinical effects we observe with our patients could be a case of ‘mind over matter’?
An interesting topic to discuss with your colleagues in your local journal club or MDT Study Group.
Food for thought in this recently published article from JMMT.
“Self efficacy: refers to an individual's belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviours necessary to produce specific performance attainments (Bandura, 1977, 1986, 1997). Self-efficacy reflects confidence in the ability to exert control over one's own motivation, behaviour, and social environment. These cognitive self-evaluations influence all manner of human experience, including the goals for which people strive, the amount of energy expended toward goal achievement, and likelihood of attaining particular levels of behavioural performance”. (American Psychological Association, 2022)
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Monitor the MIA website's Calendar of Events and follow us on social media for details of further courses, as they are released.
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Part C - Advanced Lumbar Spine & Extremities - Lower Limb |
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Part A - The Lumbar Spine |
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Part D - Advanced Cervical and Thoracic Spine & Extremities - Upper Limb |
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Part B - The Cervical & Thoracic Spine |
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2023 Education Weekend - MDT and the Athlete 2-Day Masterclass |
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Do you have something you’d like to share with other MDT trained clinicians? If so, please get in touch! Submissions to the newsletter are always welcome and contributions contribute to MDT CPD points for members. Tell us about an interesting clinical experience you’ve had, an article you’ve read or a case study that challenged you. Submissions can be emailed to: