13/11/2025
7 Common Mistakes Every Physio Should Know!
Physiotherapy today is more than pain charts, posture cues, and standard protocols.
It’s about collaboration, not control empowering patients to become active partners in their recovery.
Here’s how modern physios are evolving their approach:
❌ Don’t chase the perfect diagnosis.
✅ Focus on modifiable factors load, beliefs, capacity, confidence.
❌ Don’t prescribe complete rest (unless it’s truly needed).
✅ Teach relative rest modify activity, don’t stop movement.
❌ Don’t frame pain as a sign of damage.
✅ Explain it as a protective response that can change through understanding.
❌ Don’t over-coach movement patterns.
✅ Encourage adaptability the nervous system grows through variability.
❌ Don’t treat rehab plans as fixed roadmaps.
✅ Reassess, reframe, re-adapt. Progress is dynamic, not protocol-based.
❌ Don’t chase perfect symmetry.
✅ Aim for functional efficiency humans are asymmetrical by nature.
❌ Don’t focus only on sets, reps, and loads.
✅ Add meaning to movement the “why” drives recovery more than the “how.”
Because rehab isn’t about control it’s about collaboration.
When physios evolve their reasoning, patients evolve their recovery.
