What will happen in the fist consultation and thereafter?
Osteopaths take an integrated approach to your healthcare and therefore require a lot of information from you to assist them with their diagnosis of your complaint and then construct a management plan that is primarily safe and best suited to your complete recovery. A full case history will therefore be taken, asking questions directly about your complaint such as where, for how long, what makes it worse and better etc. Then a past medical history will be taken to include questions such as previous surgery and illnesses, heart conditions and family history etc; The questions may on occasion seem unrelated to your complaint but please feel free at all times to stop your osteopath and have them answer your query. After the case history has been taken, your osteopath will have a very good idea as to what has happened, but will need to examine you to be sure. The detailed examination will involve looking closely at the affected region and then assessing it in the context of the rest of you
