When do you go to a manual therapist?
If you are not able to move a joint well, or if you experience joint pain, manual therapy could offer a solution. The effects of manual therapy are often noticeably directly after the first treatment. Joints are functioning better and moving gets easier.
Examples of symptoms that can be treated by a manual therapist:
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Head and neck pain in combination with bad moving of the spine
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Neck and shoulder pain with radiation to the arms
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Higher back pain, possibly in combination with rib and chest pain
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Lower back pain, with or without radiation to the legs
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Dizziness when moving the neck
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Jaw pains, possibly in combination with neck pain
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Hip pains
After the examination during the first appointment, your physiotherapist will already tell you the way your complaint can be resolved. This way you will have clarity about the course of the rest of the treatment immediately.
Method manual therapist
Intake: fast clarity
After a first screening your first appointment will exist out of two parts: an interview, and a physical examination. In the interview the manual therapist will ask you a couple of questions about your symptoms, for example, the origination of your symptoms, and when they seem to progress or reduce. This will be followed by a physical examination, where the manual therapist examines your posture and movements, and investigates your joints. This way the cause of the symptoms can be determined. In consultation with the patient, the manual therapist will decide if manual therapy is the way to go. This way you will have clarity about the rest of the treatment, already during the first appointment.
Treatment
The manual therapist knows specific techniques that can be applied to the joints, in order to improve function, posture and movement. The rest of the manual therapist’s treatment program will exist of giving instructions, advice, guidance and insight in healthy moving.
Declaration of treatment
If possible, declarations will go directly to your health insurance. For an overview of the health insurances that we have an agreement with, click here. For treatments, services, or goods that are not covered by your insurance policy, or when you are not insured by one of the health insurances in the list above, you will receive a declaration from us conform to the rates list.
