"Use the Telehealth, Luke."
2020 has certainly given us a mixed bag. Flooding in Venice. Fires in Australia. Covid all over the globe. Now we have “Murder Wasps”. It ‘s been overwhelming… but it hasn’t been without balance. Thanks to the Mandalorian we’ve been given “the child” to offset all of the doom and despair.
Baby Yoda is the embodiment of all that is good in the universe – and, yet, he can also lift a mud horn with his tiny little three fingered hand… and he can heal people. We could really use more of him here on earth right about now.
When the Corona Virus quarantines began and school was cancelled (ugh), we were told here in Massachusetts, that they would re-open on May 4th (yay!) but here we are, and our physical distancing continues (unless you were anywhere near the Plymouth waterfront this weekend, where it looked like a Galantis show on Daytona Beach in early March).
May 4th is also “Star Wars Day”. Last night, with great optimism, we left out a plate of chickie nuggies and a choccy milk box in hopes that “the child” would bless us with good fortune. He may be in a galaxy far, far away but there are real lessons in his existence – and a moral mandate to protect the most vulnerable among us is certainly paramount in these times of global strife. If we stand up to do what is best for others, we may find that those we thought to be most vulnerable have the power to lift mud horns from a distance.
We’re trying our best, here at Redpoint, to be as Baby Yoda-like as possible. We don’t have a levitating bassinette, but we’re trying to achieve great results from a distance. Tele-health allows us to help patients from far, far away. It’s a new tool in our arsenal… but it’s not new in medicine. It has been used for years by doctors to reach out to remote areas and help heal. The Corona challenge has put pressure on the powers-that-be to allow the platform in different specialties – including PT.
It’s a lot like being with us. We can still use analytical thinking and observational skills to fix movement pattern problems. We can still educate you on healing your body through injury specific exercises and soft tissue management. We just do it a bit faster or sooner than we might in the clinic (because we don’t have to engage in our normal “gentle” bedside manner). It doesn’t allow us to lay our cute green hairy baby hands on you and heal you when you get attacked and poisoned by a flying space dinosaur… but it can help you heal.
If you need our help, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Even within current social distancing parameters, “we can fix that”. It certainly helps if you leave some chickie nuggies and a choccy milk box for us, though.
May the Fourth be with you!