The DPT Communication Set — 8 Field Cards

Eight one-page communication playbooks. One for every conversation that decides whether the patient does the work, or quietly stops and never tells you.

You spent years learning how the body moves. You will spend the next forty learning that the movement is the easy part. The conversation around it — the pain reframe, the patient who is afraid to bend forward, the home program nobody actually does, the physician who has fourteen seconds for you, the patient who wants to be cleared next weekend, the plateau, the cash-pay conversation — is what decides whether your patients get better.

The DPT Communication Set is eight field cards, each focused on a single high-stakes conversation. Six tips per card, in plain language, drilled down to exact phrases you can use Monday morning.

What's inside

• Card 01 — The First Evaluation. The new-patient eval that decides whether the patient trusts you with their body, their pain, and the next eight weeks.
• Card 02 — Explaining Pain to a Patient. Pain science, reframing chronic pain, and the language that separates a good PT from a forgettable one.
• Card 03 — The Home Exercise Program Conversation. The conversation that decides whether they actually do the home program — or quietly stop and lie about it when you ask.
• Card 04 — The Patient Who's Afraid to Move. Fear-avoidance and kinesiophobia. How to get someone afraid to move, moving.
• Card 05 — Working with the Medical Team. The physician page, the SBAR handoff, the advocacy moment, and finding your allies on every unit.
• Card 06 — Return to Sport and Return to Work. The clearance conversation where motivation, fear, and the calendar meet.
• Card 07 — The Plateau. The conversation where progress stops and the patient wonders if this is still worth showing up for.
• Card 08 — Cash-Pay PT Conversations. The conversation about money — the part of cash-pay practice that decides whether a new patient signs up or walks out.

Format: Eight individual PDFs, each one page, designed to be printed and pinned. Letter size. Color-coded. Made to be reread between patients.

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From the desk of Nikolai Lee, DC. Built for DPT students by a clinical educator who taught extremity examination, neurology, and manual therapy at the doctorate level from 2022 to 2025. The musculoskeletal conversation is the same conversation.