Energetic Physiotherapist Kristi Barker gives us the low down on the science of keeping moving to stay healthy. With so many of us now heading into our second year working from home, it's more important than ever that we spare a thought for the need to mix it up, to sit and to stand, to get outside and stay active, but most of all - to find our own balance of activity.

About the show:

Problem Busters is a show that explores solutions to the biggest and the smallest of problems. Hosts Jonathan Goodwin and Oliver Happy discuss making the world a better place with guests from far and wide.

About our guest:

Kristi Barker is a Physiotherapist from Regina Saskatchewan, in Canada who specialises in rehabilitation and injury recovery.

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• I've been a Physical Therapist for 5 years now.
• I was really into Volleyball when I was younger and kept injuring myself
• 02:30 I got into Physio after a trip to Uganda to help distribute wheelchairs. A young man who was destined for a wheelchair was re-diagnosed, educated and avoided being put into a wheelchair!
• Where Reach Rehab came from: How can we use education to help educate in a bigger scale?
• I put it on Instagram and it's taken off. I've never looked back since!
• It has been such an amazing way to educate thousands of people at once.
• Instagram - a social media platform for images and videos.
• Tik Tok is the new version.
• Instagram: Reach.rehab. Videos of Kristi explaining how to recover from injuries.
• 06:00 What is Physiotherapy when you really get down to it? A mix of Chiropractor and Massage therapy. Clicking and joints, to working with muscles. We look at the muscles and joints, how they work together and we are the doctors of movement. To ensure you are moving optimally and functioning at your best.
• There are so many different regions of Physiotherapist. With babies, in the hospital, with patients, with people who are recovering, with athletes.
• There is a lot of research going on. The Masters program made it a 6.5 year degree.
• In the USA, there are doctors of Physiotherapy.
• 09:00 Jonathan's first introduction into Physiotherapy - Science faculty folks were working alongside sports doctors.
• For teeth health it is ingrained in us as a child that we should brush our teeth daily. So why isn't mobility and strengthening daily ingrained in us?
• That majority of people who are on pain medication, by the time I see them, don't want to be on them.
• Movement is medicine!
• Prevention is an exciting trend. People coming in to prevent future injury.
• You don't need to have an injury to come and see a Physical Therapist, you can talk to us to help prevent injuries.
• What complaints from working from home? Back pain, neck pain, hip pain and tennis elbow. It is more the static posture we are in for prolonged periods. This leads to lengthened and shortened ligaments.
• The wonderful people who work in the NHS.
• It is great to see Physiotherapy embedded in Hospitals and within the healthcare system.
• Being prescribed a Physio in a situation that used to lead, with the same doctor, to being prescribed pain medication.
• 16:00 Post-surgery it is almost imperative to see a Physio.
• What is the...