Healthcare Practitioners
5th May 2011 – Attention all healthcare practitioners who use movement or exercise
Hi
Thanks for joining me.
How compliant are you?
Do you find / have you ever found that you are given information about what to do for your health and well-being?
And if so, have you always followed it through? And to the degree that it really has had the best possible result for you?
Or have you ever found that sometimes something, somehow didn’t sit right with you about following through?
There are probably times when you have followed through more than others – but have you noticed that there has been a difference in how willing etc you were to follow up a particular recommendation?
And (if so), what the differences actually were between that situation, and another time and something that you didn’t follow through with so readily, or fully?
As a practitioner if that happened (and you got to find out about it) with a client, you would probably describe the client as non-compliant.
And that can be a difficult call when you really believe and intend that the advice you give will help the person, but s/he just doesn’t seem to want to go through with it.
But what if non-compliance was actually better – safer, and more protective, for the client?
If you are already use exercise, postural correction methods etc within your work you will be aware of the controversies that exist, the tendency for fads to come and go, the inconsistencies within and between methods that can make it really tough at times in developing professional reasoning.
As a younger, less experienced practitioner I used to come across what I was taught to think of as non-compliance in lots of different ways: (Please continue to read the full message)
Kind regards
Sheila