# Physio Patient Education

> Create safe, accessible, evidence-aligned physiotherapy patient education and shared-decision materials. Use for plain-language explanations, diagnosis/rehabilitation expectations, options and risk communication, teach-back, self-management, adherence, behavior goals, home-program instructions, caregiver guidance, myth correction, or a patient handout. Trigger on hastaya anlat, hasta eğitimi, broşür, ev programı açıklaması. Do not hide uncertainty, replace consent, or create an unassessed individual prescription.

- Skill: `yigityildiz0/physio-patient-education` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 6 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yigityildiz0/physio-patient-education`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yigityildiz0/physio-patient-education/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: yigityildiz0 (https://skillmd.com/u/yigityildiz0)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yigityildiz0/physio-patient-education

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# Physio Patient Education

## Mandatory first reads

Read [safety core](references/safety-core.md) and [patient education framework](references/patient-education-framework.md). Patient-facing simplicity must never remove critical safety, uncertainty, consent, or escalation information.

## Workflow

1. **Define audience and purpose.** Patient, child, caregiver, group, or public; decision, preparation, self-management, exercise instruction, reassurance, or discharge.
2. **Check safety and decision status.** Do not educate someone into continuing activity when urgent assessment is needed. Separate confirmed facts, working hypotheses, and unknowns.
3. **Assess communication needs.** Preferred language/format, literacy, vision/hearing, cognition, communication impairment, culture, interpreter/advocate, digital access, and caregiver role.
4. **Start with what matters.** Reflect the person's goal and concern before explaining anatomy, pathology, or treatment.
5. **Use plain, respectful language.** Short sentences, concrete verbs, one idea per chunk, defined terms, and no blame or fear-based imagery.
6. **Explain choices.** Purpose, expected benefit, possible harm, burden, alternatives, no treatment/no change, uncertainty, and how each option fits the person's priorities.
7. **Communicate risk honestly.** Prefer absolute numbers or natural frequencies with denominator and time frame; keep baseline risk and uncertainty visible.
8. **Teach the action.** Purpose, setup, steps, clinician-approved dose, expected sensations, common errors, adaptation, tracking, and hold/stop/escalation criteria.
9. **Use teach-back.** Ask the person to explain or demonstrate in their own words. Treat misunderstanding as a signal to improve the explanation—not as patient failure.
10. **Support self-management.** Create one achievable behavior goal, implementation cue, barrier plan, support person/tool, and follow-up check.
11. **Check accessibility and tone.** Avoid stigmatizing, catastrophizing, dismissive, or psychologizing language. Do not imply pain is imaginary or structural findings define destiny.
12. **Separate outputs.** Keep the patient-facing material clean; place clinical evidence, uncertainties, and clinician-only cautions in a separate note.

## Exercise instruction boundary

Use only a dose already judged safe in clinical context. If safety, protocol, baseline, or supervision is missing, provide a general explanation and the questions to resolve—not a personalized set/rep/intensity prescription.

Do not provide remote do-it-yourself instructions for high-risk or invasive procedures.

## Output

1. Patient-facing title and one-sentence purpose
2. What is happening—in plain language
3. What the person can do now
4. Options, benefits, harms, burden, and uncertainty
5. Clinician-approved action/home instructions
6. What is expected versus what requires stopping or help
7. Teach-back questions or demonstration
8. Follow-up and safety-net
9. Clinician/source note, clearly separated