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…
Category: communication skills
In communication with patients, you need skills. These are your tools and can make you effective.
Remember: use your communication skills always purposeful, so with a goal in mind. For instance: if you want someone to think more deeply and to use his own words to describe something, open-ended questions are often more effective than closed ended questions.
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…
Hello world
Well, this is the first post on this website. So, Hello world! I’ll hope I will be able to write lots of posts on the theme of this site: communication skills for physiotherapists. And most of all: I’ll hope you will join and keep reading all those posts…. What is there to be expected? Well, Read More…