- To ensure that what they suggest for you is safe.
- To plan a regime for you with realistic targets. The plan may be designed to cure you of a disease, improve your fitness or to get you back to normal after an injury or health problem (rehabilitation).
- As a baseline for monitoring your progress.
keeping accurate records is important. A treatment or an exercise plan may need to be changed because:
- It isn't working.
- its causing side effects.
In the case of side effects, treatment may be continued if the benefits are greater than the problems. However there are often alternative treatments that can be tried.
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