What goes on a patient's treatment card
Every line on a Neurotherapy (LMNT) treatment card is one of four kinds: a finding, a treatment, a change, or a standing warning. Keeping them clearly apart lets any therapist continue the course safely.
Overview
Each patient has a card, and everything written on it falls into four kinds of line. A finding is what the therapist's hand found at a point. A treatment is what was given. A change is a decision about what will be done next. A standing warning marks something that must not be given to this patient.
A fifth kind should be kept out: an opinion written as if it were a fact, such as 'seems anxious' or 'probably thyroid'. If it must be noted, it goes in the patient's own words or is clearly marked as a question.
Findings follow simple rules. Every point examined is written down, including the silent ones, so that 'examined and silent' is never confused with 'not examined'. The grade after treatment is written below the grade before it, and the first grade is never altered. Grades are written at the mat straight away, because memory soon blurs them.
Treatments are written in the therapy's own notation, with both the shorthand symbol and its full code, so a colleague can read exactly what was done years later. Notation that only its author can read is not a record.
Every change carries four parts: the date, what was decided, the reason in a few words, and the initials of whoever decided. The old line is never rubbed out; the new one goes below it. A blocked point is written with a full stop on each side, like . Loveleen ., so that no tired eye can read past it.
Key points
- Every line is a finding, a treatment, a change or a standing warning.
- Opinions are not written as facts.
- Every examined point is written, and the before-grade is never touched.
- Treatments carry both the symbol and the full code.
- Changes are dated and initialled, with the old line left standing.
Go deeper
The Record That Shows the Truth: The Patient Card in Neurotherapy (LMNT)
The full guide to keeping an honest record
The plus-and-minus scale: how pain and stiffness at a point are graded and written down
How findings are graded with pluses and minuses
Neurotherapy (LMNT) symbols: how to read the signs written on a treatment card
Every shorthand symbol, and how to say it in words
The Shorthand: How Neurotherapy (LMNT) Treatments Are Written and Read
Why the therapy's shorthand came into being
Blocking: marking the points a patient must not be given
What blocking a point means
Loveleen
A point often written in the blocked form
Writing treatment decisions on the patient's record
How decisions are written day by day
Read the full guide
This topic is part of: The Record That Shows the Truth: The Patient Card in Neurotherapy (LMNT)
Safety: when it is held back
- Blocked points sit in a boxed panel of their own on the face of the card, so they are seen every single day. Loveleen, for example, is not given to kidney or heart patients. Loveleen
- If the trouble increases after any point or formula, the chief therapist is consulted the same day, and a standing warning is written so it is not given again without his decision.
- After a gap, the last treatment is never repeated from memory. The pain points are checked again first, because a wrong treatment can make the trouble worse.
This page explains what a Neurotherapy (LMNT) treatment is for; it is not a self-treatment guide and does not diagnose. Neurotherapy (LMNT) works alongside your medical care — keep taking the medicines your doctor prescribed.