CONSULTATIONS
Consultations offer a thorough assessment of your medical history and general lifestyle.
This is an opportunity for you and the practitioner to discuss your health-related concerns as well as explore potential therapies, interventions or lifestyle modifications to enhance your overall wellbeing.
A typical consultation lasts approximately 60 minutes depending on the persons overall medical history.
During a consultation, a comprehensive medical and lifestyle history will be gathered to ensure a personalized and effective treatment plan. The consultation form is thorough and utilised in both Acupuncture and Cosmetic therapies, while other treatments such as reflexology, massage therapie’z use a much-shortened version just to check for medical precautions.
During a full consultation, you will be asked about:
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Contact details, including emergency contacts
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A safety checklist screening questions
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Consent to treatment and communication with your doctor and/or insurance company
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Your primary health concern and its nature
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Personal medical history for your entire life including medical diagnoses, undiagnosed symptoms, history of operations, procedures, fractures and accidents
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Medications you are currently taking or have taken in the last 3 months.
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Any mental health concerns including your mood, emotions, and stress levels
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Your energy levels and sleeping patterns
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Any Bowel and Urinary habits
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An overview of your diet and fluid intake
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Review of any Alcohol, nicotine, and recreational drug use
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Daily activities, exercise routines and hobbies
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Genito-urinary, Menstrual and gynaecological history (if applicable)
It may also include physical assessments such as looking at your tongue, feeling your pulse. Checking blood sugars, blood pressure. Looking in ears or checking your range of movements or palpating areas of tenderness.
The practitioner will then review all of this information and discuss these findings with you to develop a tailored treatment plan for you which may include exploring different therapy modalities, lifestyle interventions or changes that could improve your health and wellbeing.
While our practitioner possesses proficiency in identifying possible health indicators, they are not legally empowered to diagnose medical conditions. Therefore, we strongly advise consulting a qualified medical professional for any medical concerns.
Kindly note that the fee for the Consultation Service is £30.
If you wish to have treatment, the consultation is performed with the treatment in a combined appointment slot, the initial consultation fee is included within the first appointment fee.
Please be advised: that for certain therapeutic interventions, should the interval in-between appointments exceed 24 months, a follow-up consultation will be required to reassess your health and ensure the continued appropriateness of your treatment plan, this will be charged at the standard consultation fee.
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