After speaking to a patient the other day, it was conveyed that she felt her therapy sessions had become too "hands off." After being taught an exercise this patient would perform it independently while the therapist treated another patient at the same time.
The desire to have a more individualized and one on one therapy session is something a lot of patients seem to prefer.
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Of course it should be hands on. Complete and undivided attention to the patient. Why don’t they do hands on? #1 reason. PT is billing patient/Insurance company for the full amount of time patient is there, not how much time they actually spend with the patient. Great bottom line. Rip off for Insurance Companies and the patient. Wonder why Insurance is so high???
Reason 2. What if the patient does the exercise wrong, which happens most of the time, but it isn’t caught by the PT because he/she is making too much money for the company dividing attention among three or four or even five other patients. Why doesn’t PT work. Duh? If you don’t believe this to be true. Watch your patients after 3 or 4 reps of any exercise. Reason 3. Too much going on this weekend or what did you do last weekend? Talk talk talk, to the wrong people about the wrong things. PTs get paid a lot of money, don’t they? Of course not. No one gets paid enough. $40/hr is not enough. Reason 4. PTs are usually Prima Donnas. Know it alls, that don’t live it, just dole it out.
But it all comes down to MONEY. How much can they make at $150-$250/hour. Wow. And you only get 5-10 minutes of that time, but are billed for the hour or sometimes two hours worth?
Can you PTs deny this? Can the companies that do PT deny this? I think not!!!