21.12.2025

Are you painting yellow flags in pink ?

Véronique Bornet

It's been already 20 years since Louis Gifford proposed to focus on Healing and Recovery in his edito "Now for pink flags!" Can you celebrate this anniversary with a "Yes, I do"?

  • Reflect on your practice and clinical reasoning : do you focus more on what's wrong, or on what's right?
  • Take a look at your medical records: do you mention the factors contributing to the problem more often, or the resources that suggest good health?

If we navigate by following the course set by the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health) and the biopsychosocial model, our compass of reflection should also point in the direction of health and recovery.

Oliveira and Costa (2025) remind us the connection between physical activity and health "by a salutogenesis-oriented concept, which emphasis the origins of health, as opposed to the pathogenic model, which focuses on the origin of diseases."

Salutogenesis theory model, Antonovsky 1982

In the model of salutogenesis, a Sense of Coherence enables individuals to mobilize resources to successfully cope with life's stressors.

Want a good New Year's resolution? Focus more on your patients' resources and sense of coherence. Empower them with coping strategies that will help them achieve their goals and boost their feeling of self-efficacy.

And let's Paint yellow flags in Positive Pink!

Véronique Bornet
IMTA teacher, PT OMTsvomp®, AFOM and MaiFra member

 

 

You may enjoy reading:

  • Editorial: Now for Pink Flags! Gifford L S 2005
  • Physical activity and salutogenesis: a necessary dialogue, Oliveira VJM et Costa RMD 2025
  • An empirical ranking of the importance of the sources of self-efficacy for physical activity, Egele et al. 2025

 

#Maitland #Maitlandconcept #IMTA #clinicalreasoning #EBP #salutogenesis #CBT #TCC #rehab #professionaldevelopment #health #manualtherapy #physio #physicaltherapy #physiothérapie #physiotherapy #kinésithérapie

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