Applications in the Soft Skills: Progress, Home Exercise, and Plan of Care

Presented by Mike Studer

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Video Runtime: 58 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 18 Minutes

This second installment of the soft skills series provides practitioners with practical everyday clinical tools, phrases, approaches, and techniques for progress examinations, home exercise development, and creating a plan of care. After this course, you and each person in front of you will be in an elevated position to succeed!

Learning Objectives
  • Design interactions and environments that maximize both patient experience and patient engagement
  • Formulate plans of care that are built with patient input, foster confidence, and enhance therapeutic alliance
  • Design progress examination experiences that optimize patient attention, intensity, and engagement through gamification
  • Create home exercise programs that maximize likelihood of patient compliance, adoption, and intensity

Meet your instructor

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Mike Studer

Mike Studer, PT, DPT, MHS,NCS, CEEAA, CWT, CSST, CBFP, CSRP, FAPTA has been a PT since 1991, a board certified in neurologic PT in 1995, and a private practice owner since 2005. Dr. Studer has been an invited speaker covering all 50 states, 14 countries, and 5 continents speaking on topics ranging from cognition and…

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Chapters & learning objectives

Personalizing the Plan of Care

1. Personalizing the Plan of Care

In this chapter, attendees will learn how to structure a progress exam; how to facilitate success to build self-efficacy; and how to use measurements to motivate, engage, and build alliance.

Home Programming: Maximizing Compliance Through the Soft Skills

2. Home Programming: Maximizing Compliance Through the Soft Skills

In this chapter, attendees will learn how to create personalized HEPs, create compliance in HEPs, and establish accountability with HEPs.

The Progress Examination: Accountability Meets Gamification

3. The Progress Examination: Accountability Meets Gamification

In this chapter, attendees will learn how to prioritize patient preference and personality in plan-of-care development. Additionally, attendees should learn how to design interactions and environments that maximize both patient experience and patient engagement.