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Comprehensive, tailored treatment plan & dealing with poor results -,…

- - - - We should hopefully have a sense of either/all: A)A diagnosis (be it red flag, specific or specifically non-specific), B) A sense of the stage (be it acute, sub acute, chronic, persistent), C) A sense of important contributiing factors (pain features, psychosocial features, work influences, lifestyle and functional behaviours), D)Some sense of prognosis, albeit non definite
- - - - Patient A has a flare that is unexpected and view this as a failure and feels that they are getting worse
      - Patient B has been prepped and educated about the liklihood of flares and has both a strategy to manage it and a mindset that it is a valuable opportunity to trial self managment strategies.
    - - Patient A has had open discussion about prognostic timeframes and views 6 weeks of slow progress as realistic and steady progress
      - Patient B has had no such discussion and feels that they are "not getting better fast enough.
    - - Patient A is still lookig for a "fix" and feels like treatment is failing when the results are not instantaneous
      - Patient B has finally come to the realisation that a management approach is more suited than a cure and is buoyed by the control that has been brought into their life