PT Pro Talk - 68 - Empowering patients with persistent pain and mental health issues with Dr. Janet Delong

💭``The things that happened to us as children, affect our mental and physical health later. I realized that I could help people as much as I wanted to with manual therapy and exercises and yet they would never get better because their pain was from a different source. ``- Dr. Janet Delong

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Janet Delong PT, DPT, MHS, LSW, Cert MDT. Janet is a physical therapist, a licensed social worker/mental health therapist, and is a Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She works as a Training Specialist and Community Liaison for Prevention Insights at Indiana University. She also owns Delong Wellness, LLC and is an adjunct professor for IU and Ivy Tech. Janet has a passion for working with people who deal with persistent pain, who have experienced trauma, who have issues around mental health and substance use, and/or who are oppressed in some way. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, the American Physical Therapy Association, the National Association of Social Workers, and is a budget coach at Habitat for Humanity.

📚What will you learn:

▪️ Janet's story and career

▪️ The impact of coaching in communicating with patients

▪️ What is motivational interviewing

▪️ Trauma and persistent pain

▪️ Creating a safe space for patients

▪️ Adverse childhood experiences

▪️ Advice to clinicians that are starting their careers

▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy

🔎Jenet's favorite resource of information:

1- Lorimer Moseley and Adriaan Louw

2-Stephen Porges. The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation. 2011.