This category covers all aspects of planning including goal setting
On 3 October 2024, I gave a talk at the Italian Society of Clinical Movement Analysis meeting about how to remain person-centred when gait analysis is your primary expertise and interest. When asked to present a keynote talk, I chose this title because I wanted a topic that challenged me to pay attention to a […]
Hope is the key to person-centred rehabilitation Read More »
Over 44 years of interest and research in rehabilitation, I have scarcely considered hope except as something likely to cause distress when it is not realised. My interest started on 9 June 2024 when I wrote a page on “goals and hope in rehabilitation,” now published. I only added hope to contrast it with goal
Hope in rehabilitation: an overlooked asset? Read More »
What type of long-term rehabilitation goals should we set with our patients in rehabilitation? I have previously argued that they should be made at the level of social participation, usually several years in the future. These rehabilitation aims are typically challenging to specify for a person, and often, they seem similar to the goals of
A patient’s father recently asked me, “What is the usual rehabilitation curriculum for someone with problems like my son’s?”. Until then, I had only considered a rehabilitation curriculum in the context of educating and training healthcare professionals about rehabilitation. I had never thought of a patient’s rehabilitation curriculum. Although I have often said rehabilitation is
A patient’s rehabilitation curriculum? Read More »
Teams use many different words to describe themselves. A group recently asked me to help them decide whether they are a multidisciplinary or an interdisciplinary team. The background information provided perfectly illustrated the difficulty in defining the team, as illustrated in this figure. (here) The question prompted me to write this blog post to show
Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, or Transdisciplinary? Read More »
On Friday, 2nd July 2021 (at 05.00 hrs), I participated in a debate organised by Professor Barbara Wilson and hosted virtually in Melbourne, Australia. The discussion concerned the use of goal attainment scaling (GAS). Two speakers supported its use clinically, in audit, and in research; two opposed it. At the outset, only 4% of listeners
Goal attainment scaling. Read More »
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