FAQs

Right at Home Allied Health Discovery Sessions ensure you are the most important person in the room. We discuss your health and wellbeing and assess your goals for where you see yourself in the next 12 months. We then curate a unique and specific treatment plan just for you. Our Discovery Sessions are complimentary and generally take 30 minutes. 

This is an important and often difficult question to answer because we are all different. Some people prefer chiropractic spinal manipulation over soft tissue therapy. Others fear spinal manipulation and reap greater benefits from soft tissue therapy. In immediate post-operative care cases, clients are encouraged to first see a Physiotherapist.

Right at Home Allied Health Chiropractors and Physiotherapists work closely together, sometimes advising that you receive both chiropractic and physiotherapy for the best results. Although Physiotherapists and Chiropractors work differently, they have a common goal to reduce pain, restore function, and prevent recurrence.

Physiotherapy is proven to assist in the management of musculoskeletal pain and injury and post-operative rehabilitation. Physiotherapists can also assist in pre-operative rehabilitation, which may improve surgical outcomes.

Physiotherapy can:

• Reduce joint stiffness
• Increase mobility and flexibility
• Facilitate the repair of tissue damage in acute injury
• Manage and reduce pain in the prescription of oral opioid analgesic therapy
• Improve recovery from injury or trauma
• Rehabilitate conditions such as vertigo and balance-related problems
• Rehabilitate the pelvic floor

Clinical Pilates differs from Pilates in that it is instructed by an allied health practitioner such as an Exercise Physiologist, Physiotherapist, or Chiropractor who holds a Bachelor of Science in their field. Clinical Pilates brings additional elements of clinical knowledge to the practice.

The benefits from having regular massage therapy treatments can be more than just mechanical, you may marked improvement in your sleep and mood.

Remedial massage therapy can:

• Stimulate blood supply to the joints and muscles making them more mobile
• Assist in the repair of damaged/scar tissue build up after injury
• Balance, lengthen, and tone tension muscles and tendons, restoring correct position
• Reduce pain and discomfort

Depending on your health fund essentials policy, remedial massage therapy with Right at Home Allied Health may be eligible for health fund rebates. Please contact your health fund directly to establish this before your appointment.

Cold laser therapy, also known as low-level laser therapy (LLLT), uses a low-intensity laser to target areas of pain or inflammation. The laser light penetrates deep into the tissues, where it stimulates cellular energy production promoting healing at that level.