Hi everyone,
Hope you are enjoying your new pracs.
I just wanted to post a blog regarding musculo-skeletal physiotherapy.
I have been finding it really difficult to keep to time with my musculoskeletal patients. I just feel like by the time you have done your subjective, given the patient a massgae for 5-10 minutes (massaged almost every patient to loosen up the tissue before PPIVMS and PAIVMS) that I had almost next to nothing time left! Especially when you are having to re-Ax patients all the time to see if something is working..
I was just hoping if anyone had any suggestions on ways to improve my time management. I have tried cutting the subjective down to the bare minimum, I try my hardest to be quick with the Ax, and I only occasionally re-Ax the patient... but still I feel like an hour is not enough for an effective Rx. How they go working in private practises with only 30 minutes for Rx is beyond me.
Look forward to your input
Caris
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Hi Caris
I know exactly where you are coming from! I just completed my musculo prac and I struggled with time at the start of the prac as well. I found mostly that it improved automnatically as you get mroe efficient generally. Also, it is very hard to take over the patients of someone else so the more times you see a patient the more you understand what is going on and you can Ax fewer things each time. Remember as well, that the the physios in practice will not do every treatment technique that will help the patient, they will only pick only 1 or 2 and then if that does not help they will try others the next time, so dont stress too much. My supervisor for my musculoskeletal prac would suggest that if you can do a manual technique, give a HEP and some education as a bare minimum for a session then that is just fine.
Hope you find that it gets easier for you!
Mel
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