Bringing Out The Evidence of Lack of Evidence Based Practice
This is just proof that we are not as committed to incorporate evidence based practice in our profession. We know well that every patient no matter how similar the case may be will have a different response to an assessment or treatment. We also know pretty well that patient’s compliance to physical therapy sucks as hell. But because handing out HEPs (as Ryan Kelps points out) is easier, we just go with it. Same goes for the monotonous treatment protocols we provide to patients.
The problem does not lie with the patients being lazy but US being lazy. We do not give them the support they need. When, as a matter of fact, there many materials out there to work with; that will make them more compliant. This is where evidence based practice comes into play.