Physiotherapy Session, 45 Minutes

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Forty five scheduled minutes with one physiotherapist and one patient. On the first visit it runs sixty minutes because the assessment is part of it, and the sixty minutes costs the same as the forty five. Physiotherapy is a clinical intervention. It is not a massage, it is not a spa treatment, and it is not a machine left humming on a body part while the therapist is in another room. That last one is the actual cheat, and it is worth being precise about: machine time is the cheapest thing a clinic can give you and the easiest thing to bill, so a session drifts into fifteen minutes of ultrasound and short wave with nobody present. If you are paying a one to one price, the one to one is the thing you are buying. Machine time here is used where it genuinely adds something and is never the body of a session. Progress is measured, not felt. Range of movement is taken with a goniometer and pain is recorded on a 0 to 10 numerical rating scale at the first visit, and every later reading is compared against that first one. A course that cannot show you a number moving is a course that cannot show you anything. And most of the recovery happens between sessions rather than during them, which is why you leave with two or three exercises, written down and demonstrated until you can do them unaided, rather than named at the door. A course of purely passive treatment with no home programme is the commonest way physiotherapy money is wasted. Where physiotherapy is not the right answer for a problem, you are told so plainly, in the first session, and not sold ten of them. Vitals Clinic at A.P. Colony is not open. There is no practitioner in post, no premises registration and no appointment book, and this page does not pretend otherwise. What is written here is the specification: the qualification the role requires, the register the person must appear on, and the licence the premises must hold. Booking opens when those exist, and not before.

• 45 scheduled minutes, one therapist to one patient. No shared floor and no rotating between three people
• First visit runs 60 minutes and includes the full assessment, at the same Rs. 500
• Range of movement measured with a goniometer, pain recorded 0 to 10, both at the first visit as the baseline
• Manual therapy and guided exercise. Machine time only where it adds something, never as the body of the session
• Two or three home exercises written down and demonstrated until you can do them unaided
• Reviewed against your own baseline after 4 sessions. No open ended course
• Told plainly, in the first session, if physiotherapy is not the right answer for your problem