The first contact approach allows you to see a specialist physiotherapist as your first point of care as you experience pain, injury or movement limitation. Instead of waiting weeks or months for a doctor’s referral, your specialist physiotherapist is your first clinician providing expert assessment, precise diagnostic, and evidence-based treatment immediately. When needed, we also coordinate further medical investigations or specialist referrals, ensuring you receive seamless, end-to-end care.
No waiting lists or unnecessary referrals.
Pain specialists are trained to identify the root cause of your pain, not just manage symptoms, making use of image exams, blood tests or other supporting exams when needed
Every session is tailored to your condition, lifestyle, and goals.
Evidence shows early approach often decreases the need for painkillers or invasive procedures.
The same clinician follows you throughout your recovery journey.
A detailed conversation based on a 39 questions questionnaire about your symptoms, history, lifestyle, habits of life, family history, similar symptoms, medical history, prior treatments and many more.
Physical examination based on observation, palpation, mobilisation and special tests allows the specialist to analyse the nature, extension, intensity of your pain and connect them with the statements made in the first moment.
Image exams such as x-rays, CT scans, Ultrassounds, MRI’s and other laboratory-based exams such as blood tests, can be of great importance for the expert to corroborate with prior information collected from moments I and II of your consultation, giving Dr Costa a better overview of your case and confirming suspicions or excluding them in order to give you 100% assertion on your diagnostic. That is our commitment with an evidence-based and 100% ethical approach.
Finally, after appreciation of all information provided by the 3 first moments, it’s time for the specialist to elaborate about all findings using support of 3D technology to show the patient what is the structure involved in the pain process, what is the exact cause of the lesion, its extension, its nature and more importantly, what technique will be elected to heal it, how the technique works, number of sessions needed, duration of the treatment, costs and all pertinent information about the whole treatment.
Listening first, and being the last to speak is part of our philosophy and that gives us more assertion and coherence to bring the most helpful advice based on science, expertise and experience. All those steps are evidence of our respect and commitment with the human behind the patient.