Making people do things they don’t feel like doing, while they’re exhausted, and it’s probably going to hurt. It’s no wonder us physios get the fun name of physio-terrorists.

In writing anything about Guillain-Barré syndrome, or GBS, it’s important to know just how serious a condition it is.

It was another day of emergency response. Teaming up with Harri, the occupational therapist, we were called out to a lady who was reported to be ‘hanging off the edge of her sofa.’ The lady was called Ada, and she was 100 years old. Easy-peasy one. We’re just the therapists for the case.

It was a freezing cold November afternoon, and I was driving to my last visit of the day. Get this done, write my notes, go home and warm up. Most likely with a takeaway. I was starving. The patient I was about to see was a lady with dementia, called Cynthia, who’d recently been discharged from hospital. Her mobility had suffered due to illness. Our aim was to try and build up her exercise tolerance, all while her husband, Dennis, took care of her in her recovery.

Please, please, please listen. I’ve got one or two things to say.