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Therapeutic relationships and trust take time and effort to create. A positive therapeutic relationship should be a cooperative relationship between the physiotherapist and the patient that is caring, clear, positive, and professional

When it comes to leaving a practice, physiotherapists have a duty of care to their clients as they are leaving. The physiotherapist must communicate with you about the change and provide information to you about your options.

During the course of treatment, a physiotherapist may encounter situations in which they are legally required to disclose personal or private information to the authorities which may break that patient’s confidentiality and affect their trust.

Physiotherapist support workers can be an integral part of a patient’s care. This article will help you recognize who the support workers are that you may be working with, the skill sets they have, and what services they can and cannot provide.

Read this blog post to become more knowledgeable about receiving physiotherapy services.

Physiotherapists may incorporate aspects of dance and yoga into their physiotherapy practice to help you recover from an injury or help you return to the activities you enjoy. Actions such as these may lead to confusion and questions about what is or isn’t physiotherapy practice (and what is and isn’t covered by insurance/benefits).

However well-intentioned a treatment plan, if you don’t agree with your physiotherapist there will be conflict. Luckily, there are options in how you can deal with that.

Let’s walk you through each step of your journey in a clinic and discuss what privacy measures physiotherapists are legally required to have in place in order to protect your personal health information.

For patients and members of the public, social media can be a useful tool to access quality health information, but there are some things that you should keep in mind when trying to educate yourself about an injury or condition.

The Standards of Practice identify for both physiotherapists and the public what is acceptable professional practice and creates a benchmark against which a physiotherapist’s professional practice can be assessed. This article will go through a series of questions concerning the Standards of Practice and how they relate to the public.