Patients not doing their exercises is frustrating. We spend time teaching them exercises and we feel confident that they know the parameters of the exercise for at home practice. But when we ask them how their exercises went the past week, we can get a lukewarm response or hesitation from our patients. Pressing a little […]
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I don’t know about you, but I find that it’s almost automatic to put patients into categories. We have our easy patients and we have our hard patients. Someone who is young, motivated, body aware and has healthy beliefs about movement and pain can easily fall into the easy category. But what constitutes a hard
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Therapeutic exercise. It’s a staple of a physiotherapist’s toolbox. No other intervention has as much research supporting it. As movement clinicians, we know this. That’s why we’re always keen to learn a new exercise or identify a fresh twist on the tried and true exercises. Prescribing the right exercise is important, but there are two
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Keeping our patients motivated can be hard. Let’s face it. Their motivation ebbs and flows. Helping our patients sustain their motivation is crucial to them achieving their goals. Let’s look at the all too common scenario: A patient is highly motivated when they come in because they’re in pain. As the pain decreases, their motivation
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Do you struggle with trying to motivate your patients to do their exercises? Many physiotherapists have a difficult time motivating their patients to do their exercises. This can create an exhausting cycle for the therapist when they realize that despite their best efforts, the patient never does the exercises. We’re convinced that motivation is the
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Making personal health changes can be hard. Starting an exercise program can be hard. Reframing beliefs about our body and pain can be hard. These can be hard things to do. Yet, we ask our patients to do all of these things when they come for physiotherapy. Patients can come to physiotherapy feeling frustrated and
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