Clinical reasoning is a key skill for all practicing health care practitioners. It doesn’t matter how great you are at manual therapy or strength and conditioning or manipulation, if you cannot identify the problem and figure out what to do about it, then those skill may not help you or may even make things worse.
Objectives :
- The ability to identify common mistakes in clinical reasoning so you can avoid them
- A systematic approach in how to figure out a working diagnosis for your patients
- Confidence to rule out sinister pathology
- Confidence to identify what questions are of value to ask patients
- Confidence to identify what tests are of value to use with patients
- A systematic approach to classifying a patient into a treatment category that will actually help the patient
- Treatment options that make sense and will help the patient
- The ability to practice some clinical reasoning