Today, a patient who is being seen s/p TKA told me what she referred to as a “PT joke”:
Q: What happens when a sadist gets together with a masochist?
A: The masochist says, “Please hurt me!” and the sadist replies, “No!”
Hmm. How is that a PT joke, again? After all, since patients don’t really want to feel pain they aren’t masochists, and since therapists have to sometimes unwillingly create pain in the name of healing, we can’t be true sadists! Ah, the stereotypes abound … and as I carefully mobilized my patient’s healing knee into flexion, I assured her it was all in the name of Tough Love.
Being a PT demands that the therapist performs a dynamic balancing act of pushing forward and holding back, of encouraging while resisting, and of stressing the body's systems in a way that stimulates strength, endurance, and flexibility, yet doesn’t significantly increase the patient’s pain level — as they say, it may be simple, but it’s not easy. I have to admit, there are times I briefly feel tempted just to comfort and reassure stressed-out patients, holding off on the tough stuff for another day … but I know in my heart I would be doing them a disservice for their future mobility.
Do you know any good PT jokes?
Anne Ahlman, MPT
Q: What happens when a sadist gets together with a masochist?
A: The masochist says, “Please hurt me!” and the sadist replies, “No!”
Hmm. How is that a PT joke, again? After all, since patients don’t really want to feel pain they aren’t masochists, and since therapists have to sometimes unwillingly create pain in the name of healing, we can’t be true sadists! Ah, the stereotypes abound … and as I carefully mobilized my patient’s healing knee into flexion, I assured her it was all in the name of Tough Love.
Being a PT demands that the therapist performs a dynamic balancing act of pushing forward and holding back, of encouraging while resisting, and of stressing the body's systems in a way that stimulates strength, endurance, and flexibility, yet doesn’t significantly increase the patient’s pain level — as they say, it may be simple, but it’s not easy. I have to admit, there are times I briefly feel tempted just to comfort and reassure stressed-out patients, holding off on the tough stuff for another day … but I know in my heart I would be doing them a disservice for their future mobility.
Do you know any good PT jokes?
Anne Ahlman, MPT
What did the masochist say to the sadist...one of my favorite jokes from 1979, my Philosophy professor, always black sport coat, black ties the rest black including russian cap, Big beard, an Oliver sacks looking guy, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER SMILED OR LAUGHED, but when he told that one HE HOWLED!
so I am on that joke like a monkey on a cupcake.
Another fav: "i am not illiterate, my parents were born on the day I was born"
then there is the debate on natural citizen eligible to run for president on youtube form my home town Santa Fe High School debate...find it, those key words should work
jerry hesch
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Posted by: Jerry Hesch, MHS, PT | October 12, 2009 at 12:12 AM