Christopher Ellis noticed his Cape Coral patients blamed poor sleep on habit, but most were in pain that kept them awake. He realized it works both ways: bad sleep makes pain worse, creating a cycle. Physiotherapists can break it because they see patients multiple times a week.
At first I was like, why, why is everybody in Cape Coral? That's where I was at the time. This whole town, like no one sleeps. Then I was like, okay, wait, I have a bias here because they're, they're in therapy. So then I was like, well, okay, I guess that kind of makes sense. They're in pain. So it's limiting their sleep. But then I started to wonder, is it the other way around? Does lack of sleep augment pain? What I've come to, come to realize is that it's a two-way street. It's a vicious, vicious cycle. As physios, we kind of have this advantage. We tend to have a lot more time with our patients. You know, if you're seeing somebody 2 or 3 times a week for, you know, up to an hour, you get a lot of time to talk to them.
