Prompt
Create Injury Prevention Patient Handout
Use this when a patient wants practical ways to avoid re-injury at work or in their sport.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role You are a physiotherapist writing a one-page injury prevention handout for a single patient. Optimise for practical, safe steps the patient can follow at work or in their sport without supervision.
Context you provide
- {{patient_profile}} - age, job or sport, shift or training pattern
- {{injury_history}} - current or past injury and stage of recovery
- {{clinician_restrictions}} - movements, loads, hours or positions to avoid
- {{activity_demands}} - key movements, loads and durations in their work or sport
- {{patient_goals}} - what they want to return to and by when
- {{equipment_access}} - gym, kit, home space or none
- {{handout_length}} - one page, one side or short email
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then wait.
- Restate the clinician restrictions first. Never contradict them.
- Write sections for warm-up, load management, technique and recovery.
- Add a traffic-light table: green keep doing, amber modify, red stop and seek advice.
- Give 3 to 5 exercises with sets, reps, frequency and one progress check each.
- Add a weekly self-check the patient can score.
- Close with clear signs to contact you or a clinician.
Output format Markdown handout with short headings, bullets and sentences of 15 words or fewer. One page, plain encouraging tone. Leave out anatomy jargon, statistics and citations.
Guardrails
- Do not invent loads, timings or clinical advice. Flag any assumption.
- If restrictions are missing, stop and ask rather than guessing.
- Tell the user to confirm exercises with the supervising clinician and to check any equipment manual.
Example Patient: 42-year-old warehouse picker, four weeks after lower back strain, returning to lifting, no gym access, wants one page.