Visits

First Visit

During your first visit, the practitioner will go through a thorough medical history. This is then followed by a physical, neurological and orthopaedic examination which will involve postural analysis, spinal and limb joint movement to reinforce diagnosis of the condition.

Your chiropractor will then explain the condition and discuss your treatment for the management of your condition. Treatment involves 10-15 minutes of massage and warming up area of concern followed by your chiropractic management care. Advice on management of the condition such as postural and lifestyle changes is then suggested in order to achieve your improvement for short and long term goals.

Following an adjustment, some people may feel a slight soreness following their first few adjustments. This occurs as the body re-aligns and generally only lasts a short time of approximately 24-48 hours.

Initial treatment cost is $120.

If you have Chiropractic treatment as part of your healthfund, please bring it in so you are only required to pay the gap difference.

Subsequent visits

In your second and subsequent consultations the chiropractor will enquire how you responded to treatment. If you responded well we will continue with the treatment plan as outlines in your first visit.  If for some reason you are not responding as anticipated according to the regular nature of the injury, or we have found the chosen treatment type is not as effective as another, we will alter the treatment as required, after discussing with you.

If you come in with a new problem then the chiropractor will assess you again to form another diagnosis.

Subsequent standard treatment price is $90.

If you have Chiropractic treatment as part of your healthfund, please bring it in so you are only required to pay the gap difference.

Here at LJ Chiropractic Clinic, we have live access to Healthfund claims at our clinic. This means that we will be able to assist you by processing your health fund claims right here!

This means you are only required to pay the gap payment which will be the difference between the cost of your treatment, and the rebate which you are entitled to through your health insurance.

All you need to do is bring your Healthfund card in!

Since your health fund cover is tailored personally we are unable to say exactly how much your fund will cover for your appointment. There are a few options to find out should you want to know prior to visiting us for your appointment what your health fund will be covering for your appointment. You can contact your health fund with the specific code – please contact us to get this code or you can visit us in the clinic and we can do a manual quote through the HICAPS facilities for you.

Received a Chiropractic Enhance Primary Care (EPC) referral from your General practitioner (GP)?

To be eligible for the Chronic Disease Management Plan and the 5 visits covered by Medicare Rebate you must be referred by a General Practitioner (GP) to see a Chiropractor. To be eligible for this plan must be suffering from a long term condition (a condition that has occurred for a period of 6 months or greater) or have numerous health issues that is recorded during your GP consults on file eg long term lower back pain, migraine, asthma, cancer, cardiovascular illness, diabetes mellitus, musculoskeletal conditions

Once you received a referral from your GP, you are entitled to 5 Chiropractic visits per calendar year can be partially claimed under the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Plan (formerly known as EPC Plan).

There will be a gap payment that applies for Medical referrals

• $50 for initial consultation

• $30 for subsequent consultation

We speak Chinese, Bahasa (Indonesia) and English 

Don’t speak English and need care for your back? Fear not ! 

Jen, Yvaine and Thomas are Chinese chiropractors that speaks Chinese (cantonese and some mandarin), Bahasa and English.  

Sophia speaks English, Telegu and Urdu and Courtney speaks English and Māori.

We treat a diverse range of patients who bring in interpreters eg family and friends to assist with treatment. 

Although interpreters in eg Chinese or Bahasa can be utilised to help bridge language barriers, this is not usually an ideal solution as it means bringing another person who may be unfamiliar with the patient and their needs into their health conversation.  Therefore being able to speak Chinese and Bahasa it means helping their family member better understand the diagnosis and treatment options.