How Can You Improve Your Assessment?
Most of us struggle to use our assessments well. This is an amazing tool to clarify your thinking and guide your care that we aren't taking advantage of. It's something I spend a lot of team teaching to our PelvicSanity staff.
An assessment is not:
A laundry list of impairments
A single conclusion ("the pelvic floor is tight. Or weak.")
So vague it's not helpful ("muscle discoordination")
Listing factors beyond the patient's control ("patient doesn't deal with stress well and has high-stress job)
Instead, a well-written assessment is:
Concise. I'm talking 4-5 sentences at a maximum. And yes…
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