Guidance and Counseling Skills
Physiotherapy guidance and counseling is an activity that promotes the functioning and health of clients, groups, communities and society with various manual, verbal, digital and other guidance and counseling methods. In addition to the client’s guidance, physiotherapeutic guidance includes the guidance of close friends and other social and healthcare professionals as well as various stakeholders. Guidance from close relatives or other professional groups can be ergonomic guidance that supports the client’s ability to function or work and working life. In physiotherapy guidance, clients, client groups and communities are supported to direct their resources to achieve the goals of physiotherapy set together, looking for alternative solutions together.
With his guidance, the physiotherapist supports the client in directing his resources towards achieving the goals set together. Through the achievement of goals, the physiotherapy process aims for a permanent change in the client’s ability to function, a learning result, which requires the client to exercise and work motivation. In this process, the physiotherapist supports the client’s motivation using evidence-based information in his guidance. An essential factor in supporting motivation is understanding the client’s world of meaning and making the therapy goals and implementation realistic and meaningful together with the client.
The quality of the customer’s movement, movement and functional ability is influenced by the means of physiotherapeutic guidance, in which case motor learning is at the core of the changes that promote health and functional ability. According to research data on motor learning, active, also cognitive processing related to the customer’s motor learning is essential in achieving learning results. In the exercise aimed at the client’s motor learning, the physiotherapist tries to influence the client’s nervous system, memory and direction of attention.
The physiotherapist supports the connection between motor learning and cognitive processing. This means applying different modeling means (visual, auditory and manual) and types of feedback (knowledge of performance, knowledge of results) in different stages of learning and guidance in concrete guidance work. In order to achieve the best learning result possible, the physiotherapist understands how the client’s physical-psychological-cognitive entity is linked to the client’s living environment. Evidence-based physical therapy guidance closely integrates therapeutic practice with the client’s performance, self-assessment, and community participation in their living environment.
Guidance supports the client’s agency. With evidence-based guidance, the physiotherapist supports the client to achieve the goals set together and the effectiveness of the physiotherapy improves. Evidence-based physical therapy guidance closely integrates therapeutic practice with the client’s performance, self-assessment, and community participation in their living environment. Guidance supports the client’s agency. With evidence-based guidance, the physiotherapist supports the client to achieve the goals set together and the effectiveness of the physiotherapy improves.
Evidence-based physical therapy guidance closely integrates therapeutic practice with the client’s performance, self-assessment, and community participation in their living environment. Guidance supports the client’s agency. With evidence-based guidance, the physiotherapist supports the client to achieve the goals set together and the effectiveness of the physiotherapy improves.
