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Stop Focusing On The Negatives: Risks And Impairments Are Only Part Of The Patient Assessment
If you have ever tried out for a sports team or a role in a play, you have been thoroughly assessed. The coaches will notice your strengths (quick, powerful right leg, good vision of the field) and weaknesses (poor endurance,...
How Physical Therapy Can Benefit Patients with Anxiety & Depression
Physical therapy can have a monumental impact on a person’s life. Often these benefits on in the physical realm, such as strength, power, endurance, hypertrophy, balance, mobility, and functional capacity. While many cognitive and emotional benefits have been recognized as...
Is a Placebo Effect Good or Bad?
Understanding the influence of placebo and nocebo in clinical practice Ok, so this one is a little longer than previous posts. If you need a minute to freshen your coffee or grab a snack, I completely understand. This topic...
What Influences Patient Satisfaction More – Actions or Words?
Patient expectations change and clinicians need to keep up “Taking uncertainty into account can enhance a physicians therapeutic effectiveness because it demonstrates his honesty, his willingness to be more engaged with his patients, his commitment to the reality of th...
Treatment Success Depends on Patient Expectations
9 minute read “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” – Henry David Thoreau Have you ever changed...
You Must Tame the Advice Monster
8 minute read “I know I am ready to give feedback when I’m ready to listen, ask questions, and accept that I may not fully understand the issue” – Brené Brown You will be hard pressed to...
Are Our Patients Learning Anything?
Read Time: 8 minutes “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” -Will Durant Think back to the material you covered in PT School. Let’s go specifically to a class we all...
Simplifying and Complicating Motor Control Treatment
Read Time: 10-12 min Believe whatever you believe by day, but at night, argue against the propositions you hold most dear” – How not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg Last week we covered...
How Do You Improve Motor Control?
Read Time: 9-11 minutes “The test of first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald I know what you...
