Hi,
I am a 3rd year physio student on a clinical placement that involves outpatients. I am really struggling with the whole outpatients concept, I just feel like I have no idea what I am doing/where to start with each patient that I see!

I have one patient that I want to get some advice on in particular. They broke their distal fibula (can't remember how long ago) and are in a camwalker which they can remove this week. I have seen them twice already, two weeks ago I did some plantar fascia massage because they were complaining of pain and it was very tight, and last week I did some ankle mobilisations and did some gait retraining in the parallel bars (had previously been using one crutch so wanted to practice walking with nothing).

They have reduced dorsiflexion and plantarflexion range but not too bad, strength is not too bad either. With my next session with this patient, what should I mainly be focusing on in the 30 min outpatient session?? Any help would be much appreciated.

(If anyone could also point me in the direction of books or websites that could help me with outpatients in general I would be very grateful, as I'm at the point of having extreme anxiety at the thought of having to go each day )

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