52 min
92- MDT as a biopsychosocial framework with Thanos Kontos PT Pro Talk
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- Health & Fitness
💭 “MDT has great potential to be used as a biopsychosocial assessment and management tool”. - Thanos Kontos
👉🏻 Our guest is Thanos Kontos PT, MSc (Pain), Dip MDT. Thanos graduated as a physiotherapist in 2012, in Greece. He completed the Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy (Dip MDT), in 2019 and started his master's degree in pain sciences, at the University of Athens in Greece. He became a faculty member of the McKenzie Institute at the end of 2022. He works as a specialist musculoskeletal clinical physiotherapist in private practice, dealing with the diagnosis and management of complex conditions, and has a special interest in chronic/persistent musculoskeletal pain. He has participated as a speaker and as a member of the scientific and organizational committee in scientific meetings and conferences and since 2015 he has been a scientific associate of the McKenzie Institute Hellas-Cyprus. He is a member of the Hellenic Society of Algology.
📚What will you learn:
▪️ Thanos's story and career
▪️ Evidence-practice gap in the biopsychosocial model
▪️ How MDT fits in the biopsychosocial framework
▪️ The drivers of pain and disability
▪️ The cornerstones of an MDT biopsychosocial approach
▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers
▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy
🔎Thanos's favorite resource of information:
Interact with other clinicians
Social media
Google Scholar notifications
Read books/literature from other specialties/sciences
📲 Thanos's contact information:
Social Media: Thanos Kontos
Email: tha.kontos@gmail.com
🎥Link to interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/1w4mZykZpog
🎙Join our email list to receive podcast updates: https://www.ptprotalk.com/
📸Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/ptprotalk/
📱Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ptprotalkpodcast
💻LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pt-pro-talk
📩Email: mariana@ptprotalk.com
PT Pro Talk Podcast is only possible with the support of the forward-looking and innovative company Systems 4PT: http://bit.ly/3tPCQAU
💭 “MDT has great potential to be used as a biopsychosocial assessment and management tool”. - Thanos Kontos
👉🏻 Our guest is Thanos Kontos PT, MSc (Pain), Dip MDT. Thanos graduated as a physiotherapist in 2012, in Greece. He completed the Diploma in Mechanical Diagnosis & Therapy (Dip MDT), in 2019 and started his master's degree in pain sciences, at the University of Athens in Greece. He became a faculty member of the McKenzie Institute at the end of 2022. He works as a specialist musculoskeletal clinical physiotherapist in private practice, dealing with the diagnosis and management of complex conditions, and has a special interest in chronic/persistent musculoskeletal pain. He has participated as a speaker and as a member of the scientific and organizational committee in scientific meetings and conferences and since 2015 he has been a scientific associate of the McKenzie Institute Hellas-Cyprus. He is a member of the Hellenic Society of Algology.
📚What will you learn:
▪️ Thanos's story and career
▪️ Evidence-practice gap in the biopsychosocial model
▪️ How MDT fits in the biopsychosocial framework
▪️ The drivers of pain and disability
▪️ The cornerstones of an MDT biopsychosocial approach
▪️ Advice to clinicians who are starting their careers
▪️ How to become successful in Physical Therapy
🔎Thanos's favorite resource of information:
Interact with other clinicians
Social media
Google Scholar notifications
Read books/literature from other specialties/sciences
📲 Thanos's contact information:
Social Media: Thanos Kontos
Email: tha.kontos@gmail.com
🎥Link to interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/1w4mZykZpog
🎙Join our email list to receive podcast updates: https://www.ptprotalk.com/
📸Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/ptprotalk/
📱Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ptprotalkpodcast
💻LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pt-pro-talk
📩Email: mariana@ptprotalk.com
PT Pro Talk Podcast is only possible with the support of the forward-looking and innovative company Systems 4PT: http://bit.ly/3tPCQAU
52 min