Your ego is basting in its own juices.

And the circus now begins.

Because of your skills, your know-how, and relatively good clinical demeanor, you help this patient in ways that nobody else has. And better yet, she actually progresses a bit. Then she comes in for a session and says “Hey....you’ve been doing great with my back, can you take a look at my knee?”

"Absolutely," you reply, "I'd be happy to...it's one of my specialties."

And you proceed to do a quick work up on the knee, which you handle with ease.

Greaaaaat.

At the next session you follow up on it and low and behold: it is better. And as the session draws to a close she then says, “Hey you know what...I’ve had this tightness up in my left shoulder (which is actually her neck).  Do you think you could take a few minutes and look at it?”

Now you’re obliged. And I bet in 99% of the cases, you bite the hook.

You’re obliged because you’ve already looked at her knee and it improved.   Her back is better and the physician has already designated you as the "go-to" person. And you simply can’t say no. To not address this would create an inconsistency with you, so you do it.

So for the next 17 visits you are now in a circus jumping between her back, her butt, her shoulder, her knee; every session you’re bouncing between different areas and none of them ever resolve.

That's right: resolve. 

As a result you have now become PT number six in a line up of people that have never “helped her”, because at the end of it all….she STILL has the problem because it NEVER RESOLVED.  There's a difference between better and Better.   This is what differentiates good therapists from great ones and chiropractic from skilled physical therapy.

The trap was there set and you fell for it, and thus...you failed her.

Continue to find out why.

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