If you can’t change a persons’ weight in the time they’ll be in physical therapy (and if you think you CAN in the time they’ll be in PT we need to have another discussion about over utilization), then it’s not your responsibility to address it. #saviorcomplex 1/4
Treat the person in pain exactly the way they are. Focusing on the things you CAN change. 2/4
Our assumption (as PTs/med providers) is that people don’t KNOW they need to lose weight and we must be the people to tell them, these folks KNOW that someone (including themselves) believes they “should” (heavy on the quotes) lose weight. 3/4
It’s important to remember that our (PTs) definition of “health” is not necessarily EVERYONE’s definition of health for themselves and based in #ableist ideals and belief systems 4/4
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