Applications in the Soft Skills: Progress, Home Exercise, and Plan of Care
Presented by Mike Studer
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This second installment of the soft skills series provides practitioners with practical everyday clinical tools, phrases, approaches, and techniques for progress examinations, home exercise development, and creating a plan of care. After this course, you and each person in front of you will be in an elevated position to succeed!
Learning Objectives
- Design interactions and environments that maximize both patient experience and patient engagement
- Formulate plans of care that are built with patient input, foster confidence, and enhance therapeutic alliance
- Design progress examination experiences that optimize patient attention, intensity, and engagement through gamification
- Create home exercise programs that maximize likelihood of patient compliance, adoption, and intensity
Meet your instructor

Mike Studer
Dr. Mike Studer has been a PT since 1991. He has been board certified in neurologic PT since 1995 and has been a private practice owner since 2005. Dr. Studer has been an invited speaker covering 50 states, 10 countries, and 4 continents, speaking on topics such as cognition and psychology in rehabilitation, aging, stroke,…
Chapters & learning objectives

1. Personalizing the Plan of Care
In this chapter, attendees will learn how to structure a progress exam; how to facilitate success to build self-efficacy; and how to use measurements to motivate, engage, and build alliance.

2. Home Programming: Maximizing Compliance Through the Soft Skills
In this chapter, attendees will learn how to create personalized HEPs, create compliance in HEPs, and establish accountability with HEPs.

3. The Progress Examination: Accountability Meets Gamification
In this chapter, attendees will learn how to prioritize patient preference and personality in plan-of-care development. Additionally, attendees should learn how to design interactions and environments that maximize both patient experience and patient engagement.