EXCELLENT COMMUNICATION SKILLS
To ask about what’s the reason of his/her visit.
To command specific exercises and movements.
To explain his/her diagnostic clearly and briefly.
To order an orthopaedic product.
o Healthcare professionals:
To ask for clinical information.
To collaborate in team work during a procedure.
To diagnostic patient’s problem when you derivate him/her to another healthcare professional.
o To solve problems working under pressure
o To help to the other healthcare professionals in an emergency.
o To keep patients calmed.
o To develop treatments correctly.
ORGANISATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS
o To develop steps of sessions with the least number of problems.
o To have materials close at hand during sessions.
o To contemplate necessary changes, like order different materials or employ an assistant.
o To attend as soon as possible patients during the journey.
A FIRM BUT ENCOURAGING AND EMPATHETIC ATTITUDE
o To avoid that a patient’s wrong attitude affects into sessions’ development.
o To convince patients to do exercises solving their pains more quickly.
o To explain a patient why he/she should stop doing a bad habit and how.
o To give a patient an unfavourable diagnostic.
A REAL INTEREST IN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
o To identify quickly possible disorders and how treat them.
o To discover new techniques that could be useful in physiotherapy.
o To apply his/her knowledge during the treatment.
o And to apply that knowledge in his/her health habits avoiding lesions in hand, bag or legs.