The patients who recover fastest aren't the ones with the most expensive treatments or the best practitioners — they're the ones who show up consistently and do the work between sessions. Here's how to be that patient.
1. Treat your home exercises like medication
If we prescribe three exercises, do three exercises. Not five. Not none. Three. The most evidence-based rehab program in the world fails if you don't run it. Block it into your day at a fixed time — morning coffee, after work, whatever sticks.
2. Be honest about what's working
If an exercise hurts in a way that doesn't feel like productive discomfort — tell us. If you can't fit a 15-exercise program into your week — tell us. We can redesign. We can't read minds.
3. Don't skip sessions when you feel better
The middle phase of rehab is where most patients drift. The pain has eased, life is busy, you cancel the follow-up. That's where re-injury rates spike. The work isn't done when the pain stops — it's done when the tissue can tolerate full load.
4. Sleep, food, stress matter more than you think
Recovery happens at night. Poor sleep delays tissue healing. Chronic under-eating and high stress both slow recovery substantially. The physio room is a small fraction of the recovery equation.
The best treatment plan you can't execute is worse than the average plan you actually do. Be honest, ask questions, do the work.
If you want a plan built around your actual life — not a theoretical perfect one — book in. That's how we work.