Building a therapeutic alliance

• What is rehabilitation?

  • Rehabilitation is a treatment or treatments designed to facilitate the process of recovery from injury, illness, or disease to as normal a condition as possible
• Intro to the ICF – International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health:

  • body functions and structures
  • activities
  • participation
  • environmental factors
  • personal factors

  
• WHO DECIDES WHAT WE FOCUS ON IN THERAPY AND HOW?

  • the experts - physiotherapists, other members of the MDT, the patient themselves
  • patients look for help, physiotherapist bridge the problem to a solution
• Patients are experts in their own life, especially environmental factors and personal factors

  
• Purpose of rehabilitation

  Rehabilitation involves facilitating independence not conditioning dependence