Category: Quality of Life

Reducing the '3 Stresses' in Patients???

First, it's not my role to decrease their stress but it is certainly my objective to help them decrease it on their own. In other words, I can only do so much. They're in my office for five minutes and they're out in the world 23 hours and 55 minutes, so the best thing I

Sunday March 22nd, 2009 in Quality of Life | No Comments »

How Do I Communicate QOL With Patients?

First and foremost, that’s a very important thought. If you desire to design a wellness-based practice and not just a symptom, low back pain practice, then you have to focus on people's lives, the quality of their lives. How is your care going to make their lives better? How is their quality of life going

Sunday March 22nd, 2009 in Quality of Life | No Comments »

What Techniques Will Help Me Stay On Top?

Q:  For longevity, what are your suggestions about technique, style, and growth from a technical standpoint? How would you go about adjusting and making sure you stayed on top of the best techniques to keep you in practice for a long time? It's important stuff. When you start building volume and you start seeing a

Tuesday March 17th, 2009 in Fundamentals, Quality of Life, Technique | No Comments »

What's the Key to Low Overhead?

Q:  What would you say the key is to keeping overhead low? First of all, just being conscious of this is huge because so many docs let it get out of control and they end up working their butts off just to pay expenses. Running a practice isn't cheap, but understanding a few basic principles

Optimal Hours?

Q:  How did you determine which of your 17 hours per week were the best? I think the question you are asking is how did I arrive at 17 hours per week and how did I choose which hours were optimal?  As crazy as it sounds, I knew that I wanted around 20 hours/week and

Tuesday March 17th, 2009 in Fundamentals, Quality of Life | No Comments »