Initial Chiropractic Appointment – First Appointment
After booking your first appointment, you’ll receive an email with a secure link to complete your online health questionnaire. This helps your Chiropractor understand your medical background, lifestyle, and the reasons for your visit before you even step into the clinic. When you arrive, we’ll ask you to complete one final in-person form to provide further details about your symptoms and concerns.
Your Chiropractor will then sit down with you to discuss your current issue. They’ll explore how and when your symptoms began, what aggravates or relieves them, any previous treatments you’ve tried, and relevant aspects of your personal health history. These details help shape the most appropriate course of care.
Next, a thorough physical examination will take place. This typically begins with a spinal assessment — checking for joint alignment, movement quality, and signs of dysfunction. Chiropractors are highly trained to detect subtle joint restrictions using a combination of gentle and precise manual palpation techniques. Your Chiropractor will also assess muscle tone, inflammation, and may perform more advanced neurological or orthopaedic tests depending on your presentation.
In some cases, digital X-rays may be required to fully understand the cause of your symptoms and ensure it is safe to proceed with care. If clinically appropriate, we may take these on-site during your visit. These images can be crucial in building an accurate clinical picture and developing a care plan tailored to your spinal health. Learn more about our on-site digital X-ray facilities.
Once all initial information has been gathered, your Chiropractor may choose to deliver your first chiropractic adjustment. This gentle, specific adjustment also forms part of the examination process, allowing the Chiropractor to assess how your spine responds to care and to test joint mobility in real time.
Following your initial visit, your Chiropractor will take time to review all findings — including health history, clinical exam results, and any imaging — to create a personalised treatment plan. This plan will aim to address the root cause of your symptoms, restore proper spinal function, and support your long-term recovery and wellbeing.
Chiropractic Report of Findings – Second Appointment
After your New Patient Consultation, your Chiropractor takes time to thoroughly review all of the information gathered during your visit. This includes your online intake form (detailing your health history), your symptom-specific questionnaire, consultation notes, findings from the physical examination, and, where applicable, any digital X-rays taken during your visit.
If X-rays have been taken, we also send these images to a qualified medical radiologist for a second opinion. This additional step ensures your safety, provides clinical confirmation, and helps us build the most accurate picture of your spinal health.
Once all aspects of your case have been reviewed in detail, your Chiropractor will create a personalised plan of care. This treatment plan is designed to address the root causes of your symptoms, improve spinal mobility, and support long-term recovery and wellbeing. Every plan is unique — built around your health goals, current symptoms, and how your body responds to care.
During your next visit — the Report of Findings — we’ll sit down with you to explain everything in plain language. We’ll walk through your clinical findings, review any imaging together, and help you understand what’s happening in your body. You’ll leave with a clear roadmap to recovery, and if you’re ready, we’ll begin care that day.