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Client Monitoring

(Extract from Kinesiology - A Compendium of Techniques 2nd Edition)

Sue Hall (suehallkinesiology@usa.net) has developed a simple and effective method of monitoring the progress of a client. She suggests giving the client a questionnaire to fill in on a daily basis. At the end of each day, the client rates themselves on a scale of 0 to 10 on different criteria. The basic suggested criteria to measure are:

• Alert and focussed (AF)
• Confidence and self-esteem (CS)
• Emotionally today (ET)
• Energy levels (EL)
• Personal relationships (PR)
• Physical pain (PP)
• Sleep pattern (SP)
• Symptoms impact (SI)
• Overall day (OD)

AF is the same as concentration but many clients think of concentration as book work. ET is how were you emotionally today. SI is how much did your symptoms impact on your day. You can customise the criteria to suit each client for exam-ple, different pains sites rated differently, vision, tinnitus, dizziness, urticaria, etc.

The clients are also asked to note any critical positive or negative incidents during the day.

When the clients return, put all the numbers into a computer spreadsheet to generate a graph.

Figure 2 Monitoring Overall Day (OD)

Looking at all the lines together is often confusing. When each line is viewed singly, it gives a clearer picture to the client condition between treatments. Rather than a general 'feel fine' comment, it is possible to track which days they felt fine and which days they felt worse and then to determine if there were any significant factors to make them feel that way and affect the treatment.

Figure 3 Monitoring PR-OD

Depending on the case history and possibility of connections, comparing different criteria against each other often gives useful information. For example, a client may say their personal relation-ship does not affect them at all but the graph may show a correlation of between their personal relationship and their overall day.

I have constructed an Excel spreadsheet that has:

Click here to download the spreadsheet (82kb)