Facilitating patient participation in physiotherapy: Symptom-talk during exercise therapy from an Asian context.

CONCLUSIONS: Patient participation can be improved by physiotherapists offering a supportive environment (i.e., question design, responding to patients' initiations, and promoting health literacy), and by patients embracing action-engendering communicative strategies. The fine details of interaction shed light onto the subtleties of symptom-talk initiated by patients or physiotherapists in physiotherapy.
PMID: 29939806 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice - June 25, 2018 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Yip A, Schoeb V Tags: Physiother Theory Pract Source Type: research