Improve your success rate in health
Whether you’re recovering from an injury, working on a specific health or movement goal, or looking to take your training to the next level, your success depends on many factors. One factor, alone, won’t make or break your results, but it could introduce you to a plethora of options. You can improve your chances of success, by utilizing and implementing all of the options available to you.
In a clinical setting, more often-than-not, patients get to a point where they cannot continue care due to finances, time, or they feel “good enough” and the motivation from what was once a 10/10 rating of debilitating pain, is no longer the case. The absence of pain is not absence of dysfunction, and often times they return for the same or similar issues in the future because they didn’t continue with seeing recovery through to a full out functional change.
When I see patients and clients, they are given plenty of educational notes and videos are made documenting their corrective strategies for them to work on in between visits. This is done to help maximize their potential for success in changing the habits, movements, motor control patterns, and other lifestyle factors that may be contributing to why they came in, in the first place. My goal is to leave them feeling more empowered than when they came in, with knowledge on how to help themselves not only between visits but for those instances where they no longer are attending care (for whatever reason), so they can continue their work on themselves with confidence.
So what can you do when life throws you lemons or you have a change in course and need to fly solo for a bit?
Continue with your corrective strategies as suggested to you by your practitioner.
Read through the information provided to you by your practitioner, pertaining to your visits, and implement the changes suggested by them as best as you can.
Reach out to your practitioner, if they’ve offered this to you, regarding any questions you may have for clarification on what was previously discussed, to help you stay on track with your accountability and independence in your care until you can see them again.
A lot IS in your control:
Daily lifestyle and activity habits
Your nutritional intake
Getting fresh air and natural light/sunlight exposure, daily
Exercising/training
Mindfulness/meditation
Breathing practice
Reading
Decreasing screen time
Improving sleep quality and quantity
All of these points above, are things you have pretty immediate access to and at a no-to-low cost point. All of these points above, will help you improve your overall health, decrease your overall sensitivity to pain, and improve your success rate in your recovery through rehab or optimizing your health and movement.
Clinic-based therapy/practitioner-based therapy has it’s definite perks, and treatment or training/coaching with a trained professional can help reduce recovery and result times, but your health doesn’t start or stop there. Use it ALL to your benefit!
If you’re a patient or client who has left my care, and you’re reading this, please do not stop making those incremental changes in your health and daily life, which will only help serve you better, you are powerful and capable of making great strides in your care! You have a lot of the tools at your disposal until we meet again!
If you’re a patient or client that is presently working with me, let this be a reminder that you are capable of making amazing changes in and out of our clinic visits together, and reach out if you need that extra little nudge.
If we haven’t met yet, thanks for reading this little blog. I hope it’s inspired you to realize that your healthcare doesn’t need to be a program built on dependence.
You are powerful, there are many tools available to you if you keep an open mind and try things out, and sometimes asking for help allows you to have access to things you haven’t thought of before - which becomes an investment you can draw from for years to come!