Therapeutic Inputs

The three major therapeutic inputs are intervention, interaction, and reframing. Therapeutic inputs are the means clinicians use to create favorable change. Therapeutic intervention attempts to create favorable change through tissue-based effects on anatomy or physiology. Therapeutic interaction works through environmental change, clinician-patient experience, and a sense of safety. Therapeutic reframing aims to change thought processes through education, psychology, and learning. When a patient’s threatening input is a thought, belief, interpretation, fear, or expectation, reframing is the appropriate input.