What do we do?

Our face physiotherapists are experts at differential diagnosis and management of conditions around the head and neck.

We take a thorough history:
This will include:
- Your reason for presenting
- Characteristics of your injury like 24 hr patterns, aggravating and easing factors
- Screening of risk and contributing factors to common conditions we manage
- Medical, dental, injury and surgical history
- Medications
- Social history - sports, exercises, work, family
- Goals for physiotherapy

Then do a physical assessment:
- Based on what we suspect from the history and if we are safe and happy to proceed we will then assess.
- This could include cranial nerve, vestibular system, neck, TMJ, face etc
- It involves looking at movements in relevant areas, palpating muscles and joints or performing specific neurological, vestibular or orthopaedic tests
We then come up with a working diagnosis and identify contributing factors. This is when we can discuss what physiotherapy treatment would ideally look like and if we need any referrals to relevant professionals or imaging to aid in diagnosis.

Treat and provide a management plan:
If we get time on the initial consult we will start management. This could include manual therapy, exercise prescription, self/home exercises or techniques, habit tracking or changing techniques etc
We only use passive therapies such as needling or electrotherapy's if essential and appropriate to care and the condition. We prefer to bias evidence based options that can be replicated at home.

Tips for booking!

Please (seriously please) book a follow up appointment with in a month of your initial consult. This means we have adequate follow up in a reasonable timeframe. We pride ourselves on being an ethical practice, we will not over service. But if you have not booked a follow up, we may not be able to see you for 6-8 weeks. We prefer you to book a follow up and if you need a different time frame or do not need it we will move it.