After a good chat about your symptoms, and how long they’ve been troubling you for, you will receive a thorough assessment, to ascertain a) What the current problem is, and b) What may be the cause. This will start with a standing assessment, so that we can look at your posture, from the feet up. This tells us a great deal about how your skeleton, and soft tissues (muscles, tendons & ligaments are working, and how they may be either helping, or hindering your movements.
We’ll then take you through a series of standard Orthopaedic and Neurological tests to further assess the movement of your joints and muscles (your Biomechanics). It’s helpful if you can give us feedback throughout this process, so that we know exactly when the discomfort ‘kicks in’. We also would encourage you to bring someone with you for this appointment, as there can often be a lot of information to take in, and you or your companion may have questions that you or they would like to ask.

We don’t agree with over treating patients. We know that by providing more treatment before your body is ready for it is really counter-productive, and can just make things really sore. So, we will book you a follow up appointment in for 10-14 days after your first visit. It is essential that you attend this for a couple of very good reasons. Firstly, we need hear your feedback. Secondly, you may feel much better, but that doesn’t mean that your issue is completely resolved, and left semi-treated, it could creep back again. This leads me to the final reason, which is so that we can re-assess you, and see exactly how things have changed. We will then give the appropriate treatment, or advice in order that you can continue along your recovery path. We may at this point start to give you more things that you can do between visits, to continue your rehabilitation. We will continue in this manner for the first 6 weeks (a tissue cycle), and then, depending how things are going, would aim to extend the length of time between visits. We have found that recovery is much improved when our patients have the motivation of a return visit.

The treatment and advice that we provide you with is always bespoke for you. We’re keen to get you better, and keep you well. This is mutually beneficial, as let’s face it, you become our walking, talking adverts. We therefore offer a great deal of support from the moment you arrive. Your body becomes our responsibility, and we want it to keep working for you, for as long as possible. We will never ask you to set up a direct debit, or pay upfront for a certain number of treatment sessions. However, we do suggest coming to visit us with some regularity (as you would the dentist). This could be every 3,6, or 12 months, to have a check over/body MOT. That way we can pick up on niggles, and prevent them from becoming issues further down the line.