Dr. Katie To explains why assigning homework to patients transforms treatment from one-way delivery into partnership. When patients practice techniques at home between visits, they see greater and longer-lasting improvements than passive care alone.
We evaluate all that, and on top of it, we give them homework. And it is a partnership. If the patient feel like we are the one to do all the work and they don't have to do anything, they don't see the long-lasting result. But when we partner up with them, we're doing our part when the patient is here and show them what to do when they get home. We can see huge improvement and long-lasting improvement. So patient go home with homework.
