Clinical Reasoning

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