The Most Important Thing You Can Give a Patient Isn't a Treatment
Most of us were trained to fix people. And it feels good when it works — the patient comes in hurting, they leave feeling better, and you did that.
But here’s the question: what happens between appointments? Are they getting better? Or are they just getting better at coming to see you?
In this episode, Jamie dives into Element Three of Hobfoll’s Five — the promotion of self-efficacy — and makes the case that the most powerful thing you can give a patient isn’t a treatment at all. It’s the belief that they can get through this on their own.
You’ll learn:
- What self-efficacy actually means — and why the second part of the definition is the part most clinicians forget
- Why positioning yourself as the fix can actually make persistent pain worse over time
- How to use movement as education — not just technique
- The five conditions that need to be in place for movement education to actually shift something for a patient
- What pain neurotags are and how consistent movement experiences can change them
- Why becoming less dependent on you is the best possible outcome for your patient
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