Numorous campaigns from governments in several countries try to encourage us as physio’s to deliberate with patients about their preferences and choices. Shared decision-making is something that almost every care provider pursues. Research tells us so. BUT…. Shared decision-making is often not applied. In fact, very often, the active involvement of the client is not Read More…
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Improve your communication skills, how do you do that?
Perhaps you have set yourself the goal of improving your conversation with your patients. To become better at guiding your patient through their recovery with better communication skills. There’s a good chance that it didn’t work. Not because you were lazy or lax, or lacked motivation. No, there may be other reasons that caused it Read More…
The telephone consultation or video consultation in physiotherapy. What should you pay attention to?
Well, is it the ‘new normal’? Telephone contact with your patient, or a consultation by Skype or Zoom? For the time being. To have conversations. And be effective in a conversation. That’s what we want.Offline and online! Of course, you already know that motivational interviewing is a wonderful approach to coach people, to facilitate adequate Read More…
10 reasons why your communication skills as physiotherapist should be excellent
Every physiotherapist does it all day: talking with his clients. Asking questions, listening, explaining things, coaching, motivating, deciding together. Almost every physiotherapist will agree that communication is important. Nevertheless, there is quite a lot of scientific research that shows that we may not do this very well. For example, shared decision making is considered important Read More…
Tile Wisdom #1 – effective communication
This first wisdom tile is about effective communication and listening. What do they have to do with each other? Well that is quite simple. Effective communication is all about interactions. So two-way, always. And that means that listening is crucial and also too often forgotten. By listening you connect to the other person. And that Read More…