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Assignment: PT Evaluation
Answer the following questions on the article below.
1) "Improving health outcomes with better patient understanding and education" by Robert John Adams.
2) Listen to me, Learn from me.
A. In the first article, what are the foci of disease self-management and preventive health programs?
B. In the first article, what are some ways therapists can use to influence behavior?
C. What is the most important and the most consistent intervention that leads to a positive outcome? Why do you think this is so?
D. What are examples of physical therapy practice that DO NOT lead to self-efficacy and lead to reliance/dependence on the clinician?
E. What are ways that the second article suggested that clinicians may use to improve clinical encounters and outcomes?
F. From the second article, provide one suggestion by which we can help patients in pain make sense of their condition and experience.
G. What crucial factor affects behavior? How may a therapist employ this in the rehabilitation encounter?