We are highly conscious of the simple fact that patients would prefer to do other things with their time and money, than continuously come back to the Physio/Chiro for more treatment and rehab.
In short, our goal is to help you solve the problem so we can get you out of the clinic, asap.
Of course, there probably won’t be any suprise when we say, that recovery times depend on the problem and your circumstances… Of course “it depends”… But that’s frankly a weak and underwhelming answer - we can do better.
The best way to answer the question is to be clear and up front about our process.
The initial consultation: 45mins
Learn about what you’re experiencing and your expectations of us
Find out what is wrong and why it’s happening
Provide treatment and see if we can make an immediate change aiming for 20-30%
In more complex cases, we may need to spend more time figuring out what is happening and why it might be happening which will eat into some of the treatment time.
Our “3 visit rule”:
This includes the initial consult (45mins) and 2 standard consults (30mins each)
The purpose of the first 3 visits is simple
provide enough meaningful and significant change to verify that what we’re doing is working
provide treatment and rehab that is relevent and effective
have clear advice on what lifestyle or exercise based activities you need to do more of and less of.
We have a “3 visit rule” because we want to bring urgency to providing you the results you’re looking for
You and your practitioner should know by the 3rd session whether you’re on the right track or not and from there you have 3 choices:
Stop treatment because you’re happy with the improvement
Make a treatment plan and assign goal based milestones that you and your practitioner can work towards over the next 4-6 weeks
Have a referral to see someone else either at Balance or externally in order to get the progress you are looking for with your problem.
So, ultimately - it will take 3 visits for you to experience improvement and if not, you might be in the wrong place.
The rest of the plan simply depends on the simplicity or complexity of your problem.