My last clinical placement was with community physiotherapy services and on this placement I had to run several exercise classes. This was fine and I had no problem planning and executing the classes at the right level and achieving what I had set out to schieve.
The most important aspect of the classes I did have to work on....... the education segments........ I got some great advice from one of the physiotherapists that I was working with and it was 'you know more than you think you do'. By this she meant that we as physiotherapists (even us as students) have aquired a large amount of information over the last 4yrs, even though we may not think so. The general public are not as well informed. Her advice to me for my classes was to just throw in various pieces of advice as they came to mind, even if I thought that everyone in the class already knew the information I should just say it as it it would be more than likely that most people did not know and even if they did a reminder is always a good thing. Just as an example posture, everyone knows that they should maintain a good posture but how much do the general public actually know about how and why they should be doing this???
I just thought I would give this advice as I have found it very useful not only for exerise classes but for individual treatment sessions as well.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment