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So today was my big physiotherapy appointment and to be honest I am furious. I was expecting to discuss and be assessed and guided forward with a plan of action. Instead I have basically been subjected to psych 101.

Lets start from the top, I arrived on time and was presented with more forms than you need for an operation. Having filled them all out I was introduced to my newly assigned physiotherapist and walked through with mum to the consulting room. At no point during the near hour appointment did my physiotherapist request to see me move. Instead he went on to explain how most of the pain is in my head and that I am responsible for making my body move. He had no actually pictures of my scan, nor did he have a full write up. In fact he had the same letter I have to take to my ESA medical which says very little and makes no reference to CRPS or the curvature in my spine. He did however criticise the amount of medicine I am on and said I should be knocked unconscious on it. Not helpful, nor was his comment of taking little steps, but he expects me off my crutches in two weeks.

This is all that is wrong with swapping between different medical specialists, and to be honest I have left with my blood boiling. How dare any one tell me the pain is in my head and only I can over come it. I pointed out time and time again there are two established injuries and he crossed talked over answers. Then he tried to tell me my allergies need to be overcome by de sensitisation, yeah right try telling the doctors that when my throat has swollen from mushrooms in my dinner, or I am having to have roast beef pumped from my stomach.

Put it this way, there is no way on this green earth he had read any of my case history, but instead was set on telling me how to get my life back via jargon and diagrams of emotions. I am meant to be going back the week before Christmas without needing my crutches, in the meantime I am off to my GP and trying to get my treatment referred back to the physio I know and trust. The same physio who has treated me for the last 20 years and knows when I am in agony and when I can push myself further. All this would have been avoided if someone had bothered to contact my GP and get the full medical history.