Most of us struggle to use our assessments well. This is an amazing tool to clarify your thinking and guide your care that we aren't taking advantage of. It's something I spend a lot of team teaching to our PelvicSanity staff.An assessment is not:A laundry list of impairmentsA single conclusion ("the pelvic floor is tight. Or weak.")So vague it's not helpful ("muscle discoordination")Listing factors beyond the patient's control ("patient doesn't deal wi...
Most of us struggle to use our assessments well. This is an amazing tool to clarify your thinking and guide your care that we aren't taking advantage of. It's something I spend a lot of team teaching to our PelvicSanity staff.
An assessment is not:
- A laundry list of impairments
- A single conclusion ("the pelvic floor is tight. Or weak.")
- So vague it's not helpful ("muscle discoordination")
- Listing factors beyond the patient's control ("patient doesn't deal with stress well and has high-stress job)
Instead, a well-written assessment is:
- Concise. I'm talking 4-5 sentences at a maximum. And yes, it's a lot harder to write a shorter assessment than just pour words out on paper. That's the point - we're trying to streamline your thought process
- Able to guide care. If another member of your team saw that patient the next week with no other information, the assessment should give them a very good idea of what you're working on and why.
- It should comment on 'why'. And additional layers of the 'why', as well as discussing possible barriers to outcomes and other issues.
In this 'sode we also give real-life case reports and examples so you can see a true assessment in action. We feel like this is more than just streamlining your documentation - it's streamlining your thinking!
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Nicole and Jesse Cozean founded Pelvic PT Rising to provide clinical and business resources to physical therapists to change the way we treat pelvic health. PelvicSanity Physical Therapy (www.pelvicsanity.com) together in 2016. It grew quickly into one of the largest cash-based physical therapy practices in the country.
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