When I started working for Physique I was familiar with the history it had regarding the reintegration of people into their professional life. The job started in October 2009 and it has been demanding and fulfilling ever since.

I’ll take you back to why I started at Physique. Back in the days when I was a student I flunked a practical period at the Radboud University Medical Centre just after I came back from a stay in South Africa. This would be in 2001. Somehow I wasn’t able to fulfil my role as a student in that clinical setting. This could have been due to my experiences in Cape town, but probably it had more to do with my character clashing with both my supervisors and the clinical feel to everything done there. Needless to say, it wasn’t my cup of tea.

As luck would have had it I had an opportunity to do my last practical period at Maarten van der Ploeg’s private practice. I was given a second chance and prove myself as a professional physiotherapist. The team, the setting and the experiences made for an excellent opportunity to get back my self esteem.

Now we skip to July 2009 and I’m very certain reintegration therapy is what I want to do. But OCA is not the place I feel happy. There was still this lingering feeling of wanting to have a nice group of colleagues around me. In October 2009 I got the opportunity I wanted. Setting up the reintegration department of Physique again. I can talk a lot about standardising, PR, education, budgets or clients, but ultimately it meant that I had to increase our case load from 3 new clients in October 2009 to 6 new clients a month by March 2010. December 2009 was promising with 5 new clients. January 2010 is not at its end yet and we already have 7 new clients.
And you know what? It wasn’t even difficult come to think about it. It was a team effort.