Handout quality is not the same problem as follow through
A well built handout solves comprehension. It tells the patient what a quick flick is, how long to hold, and what position to start in. That matters, and a good builder does it well. It does not tell you whether she did any of it on the four days her baby had a cold.
Follow through is a different problem with different causes: the program was too long, the dose was never said out loud, nothing anchored it to an existing routine, and no one checked in during the first week. Those are design and process failures, and no catalog size fixes them.
What a daily log changes about your next visit
With a log in front of you, the first ninety seconds of a pelvic visit change completely. You already know the pattern of her fortnight, so you spend the time on the thing she came for: the leaking on the second mile, the pressure by evening, the return to lifting she keeps asking about.
It also changes what you progress. Progressing a program the patient never actually performed is how a plan of care ends at visit six. When you can see that she did five of fourteen days, the right move is usually to shorten, not to advance, and you can say that with evidence instead of instinct.
Asking a patient to log without making it a chore
Logging works when the ask is tiny. Three items, one tap each, at a time of day she picked herself. A postpartum patient holding a baby in one arm will not open an app, find a program and type a note, and expecting her to is the same design mistake as a nine exercise program.
Tell her plainly what the log is for: so you can adjust the program without waiting two weeks, and so a bad night gets a phone call rather than a lecture. Patients log when they believe someone reads it, and stop when the check off disappears into nothing.