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Most physiotherapists would agree on the need to establish effective working relationships with their patients in order to achieve successful outcomes in therapy. Collaboration, as an entity in clinical practice, has continued to increase in importance due to a changing climate of healthcare. Traditional models of physiotherapy treatment based on the medical model and delivered in acute settings are giving way to newer models of practice, such as health promotion, that are patient or client centred and increasingly located in community settings. At the same time, the notion of patient compliance with physiotherapy advice and exercises, deriving from a medical model of practice, is being superseded by the notion of collaborative decision making (or reasoning) in physiotherapy. Recent physiotherapy literature suggests that collaborative decision making is an advanced clinical skill, while also casting doubt on just how …