Top Story Create username. The therapist and assistant who learn to craft the therapeutic language are a peculiar, yet undeniably potent breed of health care provider. To clarify how to best package that information for each type of consumer, contemplate a patient referred for a bout of aquatic therapy. In order to determine the patient's needs, it always helps to ask. As patently obvious as that seems, it is important to notice that patients have widely varied concepts about your plans for them.
Many people have no framework for reference, especially for aquatic therapy.
Although she stood before me wearing a bathing suit and holding a referral for aquatic therapy, it was a frightening revelation to her that aquatic therapy involved getting into the pool. Some patients are quite certain you are a water aerobics instructor. Ask them and you may be surprised with what they don't know about aquatic therapy. The referring professional will have much different information needs than your patient. When a professional colleague sends a patient your way, it helps to feel the weight of the responsibility.