Printable Physical Therapy Log (Free PDF)

Home exercises get done when they are written down somewhere you will see them. The ruled panel at the top of this sheet is for copying the plan your physiotherapist handed you — the exercises, the sets, the band, the things they told you to stop doing — so it is in your handwriting and on the same page as the log.

Under it, a table of eighteen or twenty-four rows takes the day's work: date, exercise, sets, reps, hold or band, a pain score before, a pain score after, and notes for what the therapist said or what you changed. The two pain columns are the useful part of the sheet. A number before and a number after, written at the time, turns a vague feeling into something you can show at your next appointment.

The pain scores are your own nought-to-ten judgement, not a medical score, and the sheet prescribes nothing: the exercises, the numbers and the decision about when to progress all come from your therapist. Every cell is a form field, so you can fill it on a phone between sets or print it blank and keep it on the floor next to the mat. One page in US Letter or A4, with the row count chosen before you download.