Patients’ lack of treatment plan implementation is often not due to a lack of information. So who needs to make the adjustments when adherence is not working? Clinical practitioners often assume that patients who attend physiotherapy are motivated to...
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Managing patients struggling to find the reasons to engage in their treatment plans is often challenging, but there are many strategies that can help the clinician and ultimately, the patient. There is no recipe that will help in every...
Working with patients or even staff who have strong beliefs that conflict with your own can be both stressful and difficult. In this blog I present some concepts to consider about when you feel the need to have the...
As health professionals we think it’s our duty to tell clients what they need to do to get better, that is, give advice. But as we all know, giving advice even when it’s the best available doesn’t alway...
You have just come out of a conversation that you had prepared for. You used the OIC format described in a previous blog and now it’s time to review how the conversation went with your plan. In this blog...
Commonly people go into important conversations without ever clarifying the outcome they want. They have no ‘compelling future’ to communicate to the listener. Without having a clear outcome it will be difficult to recognise opportunities in any conversation. In...
We all see and remember things differently. This difference has the potential to lead to frustration especially if your patient is a natural pessimist and you’re focused on what to do to help them. So what can you do...
How often do you find out why your patient might want to recover from or better manage an injury or illness? And I mean the real WHY behind their motivation. In this article I will provide some helpful questions...
During any conversation the clinician or the patient or both can withhold information simply because they don’t think it is important enough to share. When a subjective assessment isn’t going the way you expect it to go, finding out...
