Your host, Dr. Lindsay Metivier PT, DPT, ACSM-EP goes over the importance of goal-setting.

Hoping to provide some education, inspiration, and motivation for others to set goals for themselves. For their health/fitness, business, personal life, and so on.

Many people don’t realize the importance of goal-setting when it comes to Physical Therapy. But, it is in fact a very important piece of what we do.

As Dr. Lindsay views it, it’s like drawing a road-map to success for herself and for her clients.

As she has worked in the very goal-oriented fields of exercise science and Physical Therapy, There have been some common patterns of success that she has noted.

She goes over these here, in hopes to provide some insight and inspiration. Goal-setting provides 1. Direction for our work and efforts

2. Keep us focused and on-track

3. Keep us motivated and feeling productive

And ultimately,

4. Provide a great sense of gratification once you’ve finally achieved the goal(s) that you have worked so hard and so long for.

We will also cover some other information as it pertains to Physical Therapy:

• Why it’s important for establishing goals to be a collaborative process with the patient
• Dr. Lindsay’s philosophy on an active approach to treatment.
• The reason PTs set goals and what we (typically) take into account as we are establishing them.
• and a brief explanation of the “SMART” goals acronym and an example of application to a patient scenario

More on SMART goals: what they are, how to create/write them, and how to use them can be found in my blog on:

www.improvephysicaltherapy.com

She concludes with tying it all together, drawing a parallel between the way we write goals in PT, and how anyone can write goals for themselves.

Leaving you with motivation to set and/or re-evaluate your goals and finish the last quarter of 2024 strong!