This 2-Minute Personal Injury Healthcare Mindset for Medical Offices is about your medical approach to PI patients and really to all your patents.
Apply a Biopsychosocial Approach to Trauma-Based Care
Personal injury doesn’t sit on the edges of healthcare.
It sits dead center as a key segment of trauma-based care.
Yet so many providers approach PI patients as “treatment as usual” often focusing only on a specific area or region and nothing more.
I respectfully submit that’s a mistake … not just for your PI patients but for your overall healthcare approach to all patients.
The approach I suggest you take is the biopsychosocial model.
Think about it.
Every PI patient starts with a biologic injury – tissue damage, inflammation, loss of function, pain and maybe a Traumatic Brain Injury or TBI
… all part of physical trauma.
That’s the part you are trained to ID and treat.
But trauma-based injuries don’t stop there.
There’s often a psychological injury component too.
And if you have ever been in a significant auto collision, you know this — fear, anxiety, sleep disruption, loss of confidence.
Many are afraid to even get behind the wheel of a car after a bad collision.
And some patients even develop post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD.
You see … pain changes how people think, move and behave.
And then there’s the social disruption that impacts everything – missed work, strained finances, family stress, transportation and child care issues to get to medical appointments.
Their normal life is interrupted overnight, with an unknown ending.
And that social disruption can affect biologic injury recovery and increase psychological injury.
That’s the biopsychosocial model in real time –physical injuries, psychological injuries, and social impacts affecting it all.
When PI is done right, it aligns perfectly with modern, evidence-based healthcare.
It’s not “extra.”
It’s not “outside the system.”
PI is trauma-based healthcare where biology, psychology, and social reality collide — And where good medicine truly shows up and makes a huge difference,
When you apply a biopsychosocial approach to trauma-based healthcare.
