Communication is an important part of clinical reasoning as we need it in order to:
- gain important clinical information
- understand the patient’s problems and goals
- identify erroneous beliefs or psychosocial factors that may impede management
- identify the patient’s level of health literacy
- identify barriers or stumbling blocks to management
- build a rapport with our patients
Here are some articles to help us with our communication and patient interaction:
- What do people think of common terms used in assessment and treatment of osteoarthritis
- What do people think of common terms used in assessment and treatment of back pain
- Placebo and the new physiology of the doctor-patient relationship
- Provider’s roles in enhancing patient s’ adherence to pain self management
- Acute low back pain management, beyond drug therapies
- and here is an excellent blog regarding the use of language and how we may be priming our patients for a painful experience
Here are some articles on clinical reasoning:
- Clinical reasoning of extended scope physiotherapists in low back pain
- The pain and movement reasoning model
- Discriminative validity of classifications in musculoskeletal pain
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