The Push-IT is one of the quickest tools to use as part of the AxIT System due to the ease of using it as a handheld device.
Because of this, it is often the perfect choice of tool to use in your initial consultations with your clients to start your objective assessment process.
Often in your initial consultations, the goal is not to have everything figured out completely. The focus should remain on:
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Welcoming and developing rapport with the client.
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Understand why they have consulted with you.
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Establish goals for working together.
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Educate the client on what is going on and what the plan is going forward.
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Achieve buy-in from the client into the plan.
Push-IT can help with this process by providing a physical outcome measure that can help with the education process of your consultation (eg: why reduced strength/power output is helping to confirm the presentation or how it relates to the presentation) or can help show the positive effect of an intervention (eg: increased force output following an isometric loading protocol).
Using such a process to illustrate meaningful deficiencies or discrepancies in force output that may affect the client's presentation or showing a positive change from a local intervention in the initial session can also help facilitate a "WOW" moment for the client. This is the point where the client fully understands and is impressed by what the objective data from the AxIT System is showing. These moments are particularly important to achieve in your initial consultations if you are looking to develop buy-in with your clients.
Developing buy-in will then afford you the time and the trust to perform a comprehensive assessment "Super Session" with your clients where you can then understand all the possible predisposing factors to their presentation and create a plan to address these, rather than trying to spread yourself too thinly by trying to perform assessments and give parts of your plan in each individual session.