How
New Patients
Please complete your online intake and consent forms before your initial consultation. We have paper forms if need be.
Please bring any relevant medical images, reports or referral letters if you have them. These can be emailed to reception at reception@allaboutmovement.com.au prior.
Clothing
For Osteopathy and Pilates, please wear loose comfortable clothing that is easy to move in. It may be necessary for the practitioner to see your back and limbs, so active wear is normally best. Please inform your practitioner if you are not comfortable removing layers of clothing.
Initial Consultation
This appointment runs for up to 60 minutes.
Your Osteopath will:
- Ask you about your complaint and go through your medical history.
- Examine you by:
- observing posture
- asking you to move certain areas to assess range of movement, strength and stability
- feeling your joints and muscles
- other testing of nerves, cardio, respiratory and abdominal systems may be needed
- Then will discuss your diagnosis, why it has occurred, treatment plan, how we can treat it, and what will take place for future consultations.
- Referral for medical imaging, to your GP or another practitioner may be needed.
Follow up Osteopathy Consultations
Standard Follow Up Consultation runs for up to 30 minutes:
- You will discuss how you felt after the last treatment, any changes, pain levels, improvements or any other symptoms.
- Re-examine of key areas, further treatment will take place.
- Additional advice and exercise may be given
Extended Follow Up Consultation runs for up to 45 minutes:
- Usually, a similar process to the standard 30 minute consultation but may involve:
- additional discussion about your condition(s)
- longer examination or treatment needed
- additional rehabilitation exercises
Long Follow Up Consultation runs for up to 60 minutes:
- Often used for combining two standard follow up consultations into one
- Good for those who may be heading away or work FIFO
- Usually, will combine treatment followed by an exercise rehab, or needing to address multiple issues and areas
Telehealth Appointments.
What is Telehealth?
- A Telehealth consultation is a consult with your practitioner via telephone or video communications such as Zoom.
- This is often used by patients who are unable to attend in person due to travel, work or unwell.
- Health fund, Medicare rebates do not apply to health fund consultations.
- With Osteopathic consultations more can be achieved than what you think. A lot of how an Osteopath treats you is in asking the case history and visual examination which is easy via video.
- Though hands-on treatment is not available, lots of other advice to help manage your condition can be given, referral to your doctor or for imaging.
- With a good camera angle exercise prescription is easy to give. With screen record features and Physitrack App, exercises can be emailed to you.
