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Hi!
Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video about What You’re Missing from the Start: Intake Pearls for practitioners. You’ll walk away with pages of notes and practical pearls you can use in your practice right away.
Here are some of the things we’ll be discussing:
- The pregnancy, birth and early childhood history elements that can set patients up for progressive dysfunction.
- The most important thing to ask a patient if they are missing? This one is overlooked often.
- It’s so critical not to miss an ACE. But do you know the common mistakes in discovering them?
- These often overlooked sources of trauma often promote (or actually trigger) disease. You’ll be surprised.
- Dental history. Yes! Because what happens in the Mouth does not stay there.
- The top missteps in assessing drug history. Even seasoned practitioners stumble with this one.
Thank you very much for joining in the fun and learning! Please share your detailed thoughts below in the “Ask a Question” area about what inspired you in this presentation! Include what type of practitioner you are, so that we can all see your unique perspective.
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53 Questions for “What You’re Missing from the Start: Intake Pearls for Practitioners”
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Aviva H Janofsky says:
I personally understand why it is so important to offer symptom check lists because of an experience with my daughter. My daughter, Turi started wearing a hearing aid when she was two years old. Not a single person ever thought to ask her what she hears. We just assumed she had a hearing loss. One day, (she was 9 years old) when I was talking about tinnitus with a friend and my daughter was shocked to hear that it is unusual to hearing random sounds. She has always heard a hissing windy sound.
Tracy in you talk I learned to ask about items that have been discontinued even 6 months ago such as a PPI. It makes perfects sense it can put you leaps and bounds forward. Thank you for all of your valuable tips! -
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Sally B Liner says:
Thank you so much for this inspiring session and pearls of wisdom!!! My biggest take away was the reminder that the clinical encounter is part of the intervention. I am reminded that in these challenging times of computer documentation and productivity standards, we need to be mindful that we are not just keep
typing into a computer the whole time and forgetting to open our hearts and really see our patients via open posture and eye contact. -
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Naomi Dicus says:
I loved the suggestions of Additional questions to add to my intake health history form. Like information about how was a persons childhood and how happy were they on a scale from 1 to 10. How was their mothers pregnancy with them? This can set us up for experience great deals of stress before we were even born. Very valuable.
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Martina Sturm says:
My favorite pearl and key reminder was how important eye contact is!
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Renee says:
Love the reminder to ask about medications that may have been stopped in the last 6 mo!
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Emily Stahl says:
I really appreciated the discussion about asking a patient to rate their stress and happiness levels in childhood. Such a great way to allow them to paint a picture for us in a few simple questions. Thank you again for another thought provoking, pearl packed FB live!
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WOW WOWO WOW everytime I hear out beloved TRACY I pick up some new critical detail to improve myself more and more and today it seems like I am literally learning the importance of asking the correct high mileage questions to get important game changing inputs from client which no one better than the client can give. You don’t ask you don’t get !!Thank you Tracy! Thank You SAFM!!
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Tracy,
I love this subject. The most surprising thing I have ever discovered (and I definitely didn’t think to ask) while working w/ a client suffering from bursitis and leg pain was that this mild mannered, soft spoken woman had been SHOT in the leg many years prior. Uh…what? So, from that point on, I altered my intake forms to include a section for any extra parts (in her case, residual floating shell fragments) as well as missing or “broken” parts. I think knowing what’s been added is as important as what’s missing – esp in more common instances like breast implant toxicity or leakage, dental implants, orthopedic plates, pins, screws, hernia or uterine mesh screens (that don’t tend to stay in place), IUDs etc. -
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Majella says:
I love the encouragement to celebrate the clients successes
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Lucy Bhalla says:
Great FB Live! Lots of pearls, I like ACE and high miles questions but most importantly the closing statement to let the client know that you are confident that you can help them. I myself encountered that with practitioners who are so pre-occupied with how much I have to pay or what courses I should take; totally ignoring how I feel whether they are the right fit for me or not…Thank you Tracy for your wisdom & the pearls, will have to watch it again & take notes!
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Svetlana says:
I really appreciate today’s presentation! Thank you for reminding me about importance of celebrating people’s successes big or small, so that they stay engaged in their progress of healing.
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There were a few pearls, I learned from todays session. I don’t recall hearing about ACE-Adverse Childhood Experiences, body trauma from car accidents, mouth breathers vs nasal breathers.