31 Aug 2026
EP.27: Good Advice Isn’t Always the Right Advice for You
There’s more health information available to us than ever before. Google, ChatGPT, Facebook groups, gym trainers, friends, therapists — everyone has advice about what you should or shouldn’t be doing when something hurts.
But good advice isn’t necessarily the right advice for you.
In this Physio Buddy Coffee Chat, Saree Hewlett draws on more than 30 years as a physiotherapist to talk about why understanding the person behind the problem matters.
We look at why the same explanation sometimes needs to be heard in a different way, why an exercise that helps one person may aggravate another, and why successful rehabilitation isn’t simply about finding the “best” exercise.
It’s about understanding where you are now, where you want to get to, and creating a plan that actually fits your body, your stage of recovery and your real life.
Because your rehabilitation shouldn’t just look good on paper. It needs to work for you.
Show Notes:
Good Advice Isn’t Always the Right Advice for You
Have you ever been told something several times, only for someone else to explain it slightly differently and suddenly you think:
“Ohhh… NOW I get it.”
It happens more often than you might think.
In this episode of The Physio Buddy Podcast, I’m talking about listening — listening to your therapist, listening to all the other advice coming at you, but most importantly, understanding what actually makes sense for you.
Why we sometimes need to hear the same information in a different way before it clicks
Why your therapist needs to explain things in a way that makes sense to you
The problem with comparing your rehabilitation to someone else’s
Why advice from Google, social media, friends or the gym may be perfectly reasonable — but still wrong for your particular situation
Why the stage of your recovery matters
Why improving movement and function may need to come before strengthening
The importance of your physio, trainer and other health professionals working towards the same goal
Why successful rehabilitation requires more than a theoretically “perfect” treatment plan
How time, work, family, finances and everyday life need to be considered when creating your plan
There isn’t one perfect rehabilitation plan that works for everybody.
Two people can have similar symptoms and need very different approaches. Something that worked brilliantly for your friend may not be appropriate for you — and something you see another person doing at the gym may simply be several steps further along than where you are today.
Good rehabilitation starts by asking:
Where are you now? Where do you want to be? And what needs to happen in between?
Then we need to make that plan realistic enough to actually fit into your life.
That’s where individualised rehabilitation makes the difference.
Physio Buddy is about helping you make sense of your body, movement, pain and rehabilitation without adding more confusion to an already noisy world of health information.
If you’ve ever thought, “I’m not really injured… but something just isn’t right,” you’re in the right place.
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