What to expect on your first visit

We will generally email you this ahead of time.

It will include your contact details, a general screening of your health including your medical history, family history and any medication you may currently be taking.

We use this primarily as screening tool so don’t worry if you have forgotten to add things in, your practitioner will remind you and go in into greater detail when taking your case history.

You may be asked to fill out a special questionnaire regarding your pain or symptoms. These are called outcome measures which help us to gauge where you are at now and give us a baseline to measure against in the near future.

The first part of the consultation is taking the time to understand when your symptoms started and how they’re effecting day to day life. This is fundamental to creating a clearer picture of how it started a often why your low back pain won’t go away.

We will take this opportunity to dive a little bit deeper into your family history medical history and current medication.

We will also look into your lifestyle, this will include sleep, diet, and exercise.

Learning about your occupation and daily stressors are also important to create a clearer picture of your overall health.

These provide value bits of information that allow us to make helpful recommendation to assist and support your recovery and get you back to feeling 100%.

This portion of the assessment enable sus to use a variety of physicals tests to accurately access the likelihood of your pain source.

These test also allow us to assess your range of motion, movement and coordination, posture & balance.

When assessing muscle tissues for tightness, we use movement standards which gives us a real number to work towards without guessing.

If you’ve have previous scans, whether they are X-ray or MRI we will take to the time to explain your scans in detail so you have a better understanding of what’s going on.

If you have access to reports, bring them to the clinic with you. If you don’t, no need to worry, we can often source your report and images online during your consultation with your consent.

Depending on your condition, sometimes we will refer you for scans or imaging where appropriate.

From the information we’ve gathered, we are able to help identify the source of your pain and map out the strategy to get you out of pain and moving better.

Each patient is different and each condition has its own timeline. Our goal is to be clear with your diagnosis and provide you with an appropriate timeline for your recovery based of your goals.