Clinical reasoning is defined as a process in which the therapist, through interaction with the client, caregivers, family and members of the healthcare team, structures meaning, goals and health management strategies based on clinical data, clients’ preferences, professional judgement and knowledge (Higgs and Jones 2000). This process encompassed three core elements – discipline-specific knowledge, cognition and metacognition (Higgs 1997). For the novice practitioners, hypothetico-deductive reasoning has been known to be a useful and common approach to clinical reasoning (Higgs 1997). The rookie physiotherapist would first generate numerous hypotheses, collect clinical information and perform various tests to identify the impairments (Gilliland
