Your visit to Physio Restart

Medical history and examination during your visit

Physio Restart attaches great importance to the quality and individuality of your treatment.

That’s why we take enough time at the beginning to take a medical history and carry out an examination to find out more about your physical problem, but also about you as a person and your everyday and sporting environment.

During the examination, we use test batteries that can provide us with information about the possible causes of your complaints. Test batteries are a series of physical tests and questionnaires that can make the assessment more subjective and at the same time more objective, thereby standardizing it. The results of the tests help you to better understand the findings and to help determine the course of treatment.

Our choice of tests is based on scientific findings, which we update through our study programs and regular further training.

The tests should be repeated over the course of the treatments in order to assess your condition and to determine and guide your return to everyday life, sport and competition.

Read more about our investigations: here.

Direct physiotherapy visit

Direct access has been common practice in the Netherlands since 2006, with almost half of patients choosing it.

During our Bachelor’s degree in the Netherlands, Master’s degree in England and various further training courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, we gained extensive experience with direct access in physiotherapy and sports medicine diagnostics. With direct access, patients can go to physiotherapy without a doctor’s prescription. First of all, relative and absolute contraindications to physiotherapy treatment must be eliminated. If there are no contraindications, an examination, assessment and finally treatment follow. Nevertheless, we value the expertise of doctors and work together with appropriate practices.

[Man erwartete,] that direct access would improve access to primary care and slightly reduce the workload of GPs. Direct access should bring greater recognition for physiotherapy, but also greater responsibility.

We are happy to take on this responsibility and ensure that we maintain our expertise in this area.

Author:

Anneke Penny

Book your appointment for physiotherapy, massage or group courses: here.

References:

1 Swinkels, I.C.S., Leemrijse, C.J., Barten, J.A., Veenhof, C. Direct access to physiotherapy in the Netherlands=Accès direct à la physiothérapie aux Pays-Bas. Physioactive:2014(6),13-19.