F.A.Qs
It’s recommended that you contact a physio if you have had pain for a few days which hasn’t improved, a recurrent problem or if you are in severe pain. Coming for treatment soon after trauma will help to hasten the healing process.
Your physio will assess your injury, take a detailed history of your condition, give you a diagnosis and discuss an appropriate course of treatment. The first session will include an assessment and a treatment
This depends on the severity of the problem and how long you’ve had it. A few patients are fine after one treatment but quick fixes don’t usually work! Most patients have between 3 – 6 treatments, on average 3 or 4 treatments. With rehabilitation we look at a six week program, usually attending treatment once a week.
The HPCSA defines biokinetics as a profession concerned with preventative health care, the maintenance of physical abilities and final phase rehabilitation through scientific exercise prescription in the absence of pain.
A physiotherapist is a first line practitioner who will diagnose your problem, treating it with hands-on techniques and an exercise prescription until final phase rehabilitation is required.
We enjoy working with biokineticists as a team, with the patient’s interests in mind.
No, unless you belong to GEMS medical aid and wish to claim for your treatment cost.
NEED A TREATMENT?
Please indicate which practice you would like to visit and briefly what your problem is so that you can be booked in with the appropriate physiotherapist.
New patients can download a patient information form to fill in at home if they would like to save a bit of time. We otherwise do ask a new patient to arrive 10 minutes before their appointment time to complete the paperwork.