“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – THEODORE ROOSEVELT
You can reach your goals, have great outcomes, and get back to the things you love doing. Expect to Get Better—You ProbablyWill Research has shown that positive expectations increase the chances of a good outcome. It’s the old self- fulfilling prophecy; your attitude determines your approach to situations. If you believe you’ll be successful, you’ll likely put in more effort. You’ll be more willing to try new things, take some risks, and keep trying after failures or setbacks. A negative attitude will likely mean that you’ll take your first failure or setback as confirmation that what you’re trying won’t work or isn’t possible, and you’ll give up. Why waste time and effort on something that’s doomed to failure anyway? Your Expectations Influence Your Results There’s some research to prove that positive thinking and expectations make a difference in rehab settings. A review of 23 articles looking at outcomes for shoulder pain found a few interesting things. First, patients who expected to recover and believed they had some control of the outcome, ended up doing better than those who didn’t. Second, optimistic patients were found to have less pain and disability after completing rehab. Third, patients who believed they’d have pain and disability after surgery tended to have — you guessed it — pain and disability after their surgery. Research says that you tend to get what you expect.
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