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CROSSING THE ROAD TO BETTER HEALTH | Crossover Health | Dr. Dan Lord

10 Nov 2017 · 1 min

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A short YouTube segment in which Dr. Dan Lord (Crossover Health) argues that new patient evaluations should be a comprehensive one-hour visit. He outlines why the hour is needed—discussing patient goals, education, thorough manual therapy, and a substantial gym-based rehab session—and says this front-loaded approach produces a tailored program (taping, gait strategies, core training, hip mobilization) that reduces the need for future visits. He also recommends a 30-minute follow-up in one to two weeks to check progress.

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Do they need 30 minutes? They need an hour. Why an hour? I mean, why do they need the hour? Well, if you're going to go through a thorough exam, you're going to talk about the patient's goals, their specific goals, give them some education, do a thorough treatment, really good manual therapy. Then you take them in the gym and do a rehab session. And the rehab session isn't like three minutes. Here's a stretch you can do. It's here's a program we're putting together. That hour can prevent a lot of visits that you actually don't need in the future because you give the full scope of what that person needs, whether it's, here's some taping strategies, here's some running gait strategies, here's how you train your core, here's how we're going to mobilize your hip, and then here's your specific custom program. Come see me in a week or two weeks for half an hour now. And we're going to check out how you've been doing.