We place great importance on these first 6 weeks, as this is the period when patients will demonstrate important changes in their condition. We meet on a weekly basis to discuss the progress of all our complex cases, and modify the home and in-office rehabilitation. We take our treatment of you very seriously and dedicate significant time outside of your consultation to your case. 

Each Regular Rehabilitation Session usually lasts 15 minutes ($80). 

We will discuss with you if your condition requires an Extended Rehabilitation Session of 30 minutes ($150)

We ask all patients contemplating a Complex Care Initial Consultation with us to ensure that they are prepared and able to attend weekly for this initial 6-week period. If you have to travel some distance (e.g. over an hour away, interstate or from overseas), we are able to accommodate you with Zoom consultations on a weekly basis (Zoom consults are at a cost of $80 per 15-minute session, and do not qualify for health insurance rebates).

We usually expect to see at least a 50% improvement in symptoms in 6 weeks, if patients have been 100% compliant with our program. It is important for you to know that a significant percentage of our “failures” are due to patients who are not compliant with our exercise program in the first 6 weeks or miss or cancel appointments during this time. 

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“If you are unable or unwilling to do the 5-10 minutes of simple, home exercises on a daily basis for 6 weeks, we strongly recommend you do not commence with our program. You will be wasting your valuable time and financial resources. It is also important to know that we only have the resources to consult with a limited number of complex cases such as yours. If you continually cancel appointments or are not engaging with your rehabilitation program, you will also be denying another patient the opportunity of attending our clinic”.

If you start with good intentions for good compliance, but we find you are not being compliant over the ensuing weeks, we will recommend you suspend your program and recommence when you feel you can be fully compliant for a 6-week period.

What happens after the first 6 week period?

After 6 weeks, we usually reduce our contact with patients to once every 2-4 weeks and hopefully move the patient to more complex rehabilitation routines. After the first 6 weeks, we normally see our patients, on average, about 4 occasions over the next 4 months. Our patients’ clinical responses vary during the next 4 months. We find those who have been naturally compliant are happy to continue their home exercise routines and are more likely to continue to see sustained improvement over the next 4 months. Those who struggled with compliance in the first 6 weeks often drop off exercise maintenance and do not see expected improvement over the following 4 months. 

We know this has been a lot of information. However, we hope you have enough information to make an informed decision about attending our clinic. We have consulted with many, many hundreds of patients with your type of condition. What we have outlined above is the best way we can possibly help you, if we can help you.