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What To Do When Your Treatment Stops Working

Published: Nov. 3, 2022, 8 a.m.

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In this short episode, Erica discusses her perspective on what to do when your patient plateaus.\\xa0

We\\u2019ve all been there. The proverbial plateau. Your patient is doing well and then all of a sudden they get stuck. Why?\\xa0

More often than not, there is a secondary region of the body that has cropped up. Go back to your patient\\u2019s movement and injury history. There will most likely be a clue there.\\xa0

Also, do you trial exercise at the beginning of the treatment session?\\xa0

If you don\\u2019t, you should.\\xa0

Another reason why someone has plateaued is that their exercise program is too hard. Or too easy. Seems obvious, right?\\xa0

Many therapists just add exercise at the end and don\\u2019t bother to observe the patient performing the exercise.\\xa0

The most common scenario is this: Your patient has restored to their dominant non-optimal movement pattern as the program progresses and you may have missed it.\\xa0

Join Erica as she discusses this in the context of a few patients.\\xa0

A glance at this episode:

  • [4:22] The patient could have a secondary driver that you need to treat
  • [5:34] The patient might plateau when you start to load their system
  • [6:24] Patient example #1
  • [7:30] Patient example #2
  • [8:55] Thinking out of the box and using clinical reasoning

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