Manual Therapy 2022: What is old and what is new?
Every year, there are major updates within the manual therapy world. This course summarizes what information has been updated, shown effective, and needs to be pursued more in the clinic. Content materials of the course are updated twice a year, to ensure that the information is up to date, to support evidence-based practice for our clinicians.
Empathy: From building trust to improving outcome
Evidence shows that patients and clients treated by more empathetic clinicians show better clinical experience, adherence, and outcome. Through its flexible definition, empathy is an important element in healthcare practice. In order for effective diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis, rapport, trust, and communication need to be developed first. This course discusses how clinicians can be more empathetic in their practice by understanding their patients and clients better, and ultimately improve the intended clinical outcome.
Patient Engagement: Will she do your home exercise?
Patient engagement and empowerment can place the patient in the center of their medical experience. Further, it is shown to increase the patient’s self-efficacy and behavioral changes, which then translates to better adherence and outcome. This course focuses on how empowering the patient can make them more proactive and engaged throughout their treatments, to further improve their clinic attendance and clinical outcome.
Cultural Competence: Increasing your quality of care
Cultural competence has been gaining a lot of attention for healthcare practitioners in the last few decades. With the goal of achievement of health and racial equity, this course looks at how clinicians can appreciate the patient’s culture, beliefs, and values. How can we improve someone’s health without understanding what goes on in their life?
Treatment Intentionality: Don’t waste your time, and their time.
With the variety of schools of thought in physical therapy, we often get lost in our own toolbox. After earning a few years of clinical experience under your belt, you start to perform your techniques without asking yourself for clinical rationale. Recognition of pattern is good, and evidence-based practice is also good, but every touch and instruction you give should have reasonings. This course looks at how to give purpose and reasoning for your treatment techniques, which will further improve your clinical reflection and patient outcome.