Never skip the history form.
Two reasons. Both matter. Screen injuries, meds and conditions before you put anyone under load. It’s your legal protection.
The lesson
Two reasons. Both matter.
Screen injuries, meds and conditions before you put anyone under load. It’s your legal protection.
But it’s also an interview.
Disguised as paperwork. While they fill it in, you’re learning how they talk about themselves.
What they emphasise. What they skate.
What they leave out entirely. The form is a Trojan horse for the real assessment.
Your evidence trail if it ever goes wrong.
Contemporaneous written screening — GPs, physios and insurers document for exactly this reason.
And it settles a nervous client.
Something structured to do with their hands while they get comfortable — and it tells you, quietly, who they are.
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