hi michele.

Thanks for your post. It is interesting you mention burnout...burnout occurs for different reasons (sorry for the obvious!) but i wonder if success has anything to do with it.

I know that the feeling i am helping people who have been everywhere and can't solve their problems and then for the first time in years they can now do [insert your key functional task here!] keeps me going...and i am sure we have all had those patients!

I think that if you can get yourself learning under people who are able to help people quite quickly and the patients say "wow" then i think this will help.

In Australia, i suspect that a lot of people might get burnt out by doing the same thing day in and day out like mobilisations, U/S, interferential etc. I would get bored if i were doing that too!

Obviously some people burnout because they work too long etc...I have just cut my clinical hours to about 35hours per week from about 50 but still probably work about 60 hours per week. I am now trying to develop all my courses and learning resources for different groups and it has me energised.

In the end, i think you need to have a passion for doing this...it is certainly not for the money!