Musculoskeletal assessment
To ensure the best care, every new patient begins with an initial consultation, where we assess your needs and create a personalized treatment plan. This includes a musculoskeletal assessment—a targeted tool used to identify the root cause of your symptoms and develop an accurate diagnosis, essential for long-term, pain-free living.
During your initial consultation, you can expect the following:
Consultation- This is how we inquire in detail about the patient’s complaints and lifestyle, through this we can establish an accurate medical history. If the patient has earlier findings from other medical examinations of their health conditions, such as the analysis of scanning images from examinations (e.g., MRI, X-Ray, etc.) these can assist with providing us with the basic understanding necessary to develop the proper therapy (it is important for the patient to bring these documents to our consultation).
Posture Assessment – Conducted in underwear, as we examine the entire body and its imbalances, not just the problematic area.
Why? – It is possible that, for example, pain in the right knee is the result of an asymmetric load caused by scoliosis, so in the future, we may not only treat the knee but also focus on restoring symmetry in the structures around the spine.
Physical Examinations – Various muscle strength and functional tests, as well as joint range of motion measurements, help pinpoint the underlying issue of the problem.
Diagnostic Ultrasound – Provides a detailed, pain-free image of muscles, joints, tendons, and other soft tissues. We use ultrasound during every assessment to get a complete picture of the issue. Further details on ultrasound examination.
Discussion of the underlying problematic factor(s) with the patient.
Short- and long-term treatment plan creation and explanation, recommendation of treatment techniques, and lifestyle advice.
It is strongly recommended to bring a change of clothes for the assessment. Changing facilities are provided at our clinic.
For what cases are the various treatments recommended?
In such a plan we will recommend it treatments to alleviate as appropriate:
- Low back pain
- Back pain
- Neck problems / stiff neck, pain, arm numbness, headache
- Intervertebral disc complaints / searing pain, numbness, loss of senses
- Other spinal disorder complaints / vertebral misalignment, abrasion, fracture/
- Hip complaints
- Shoulder, elbow and wrist complaints
- Knee, ankle & foot pain
- Injuries following from sport activities.