{"id":4772,"date":"2017-06-20T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2017-08-24T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T14:54:12","slug":"patient-education-a-simple-and-fun-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/patient-education-a-simple-and-fun-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Education: A Simple and Fun Method for Chiropractic Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patient education is definitely a clinical function<\/strong>. \u00a0But\u2026 it is also good marketing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And note that your entire office IS the marketing department<\/strong> and each team member has a marketing role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To help everyone on your team better participate in patient education,<\/strong> use this simple and fun method:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get a whiteboard and place it where patients can see it.<\/strong> \u00a0Assign someone to write something on it each day so that your patients, or you, can comment on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For example, you could write:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What does this mean?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u201cPain is the last to show<br \/>\n\u2026\u00a0and the first to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will be a cue for the doctor or a team member to talk to your patients \u2013 and can also provoke your patients to talk to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some other examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhat does a chiropractic ADJUSTMENT do?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow is pain like an iceberg to your health?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0What does A.D.I.O. mean?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>At your morning team meetings,<\/strong> or weekly meetings, go over each subject so everyone has a better idea on how to educate patients on the topic.<br \/>\nFor active PM&amp;A members, go here for a more complete list: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pmamembers.com\/\">PMAmembers.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patient education is definitely a clinical function. \u00a0But\u2026 it is also good marketing. And note that your entire office IS the marketing department and each team member has a marketing role. To help everyone on your team better participate in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/patient-education-a-simple-and-fun-method\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170,5,13],"tags":[361,377,203,367,428],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chiropractic-business-building","category-chiropractic-marketing","category-patient-education","tag-chiropractic","tag-michel","tag-patient","tag-petty","tag-prompters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}