Planning Treatment
Every patient's story and findings are unique and therefore your treatment plan will be unique. Once we have completed our assessment, the findings will be explained to you in a way that helps you to understand both your symptom experience (why you have the pain you do) and the specific impairments that have likely led to your current situation.
"That makes so much sense, I get it now!" is something we hear daily.
Empowering you with the necessary knowledge to make changes in how you use your body is a key part of our program and this begins by understanding why you are where you are and what YOU (along with our help) can do about it.
We use many different forms of treatment and every one is used for a specific reason. If you have any questions with respect to your treatment plan, for example:
- how does the manual therapy technique work, or
- why is dry needling recommended, or
- why is a specific exercise so important, or
- why is it necessary to change how you sit, stand, run - just ask!
And, if you can't remember everything we tell you, bring an audio recorder to your session and tape it for a later reminder.
We really need you to be a committed participant of this program if it is to be successful. Your treatment will not begin until a treatment plan is agreed to. There are two components to your treatment program:
- Release your old strategies and habits: help you to release your persistent (even stubborn perhaps) holding habits that are preventing you from supporting your body and moving efficiently (e.g. release tight muscles, overactive muscles, stiff joints, tight fascia etc.)
- Train a new way to move: teach you a more efficient, and less stressful, way to support and move your body according to your goals and expectations.