What to expect on your first visit.

What To Expect on Your First Visit

When you enter our office for the first time, you will be greeted with a warm smile by our front office manager. If you have filled our forms out already, the doctor will enter the consultation room with you and ask about your current health concerns by taking a health history. The health history investigates both your current health situation, as well as any past health challenges, including accidents, illnesses, diseases, and family history. The doctor will ask you about what medications you are currently taking, if any. If you are taking more than four medications, please bring a list of them to the initial consultation so the doctor can copy them and put it in your records.

After the doctor has completed the history taking, you will be instructed to put on a gown. You only need to take off your shirt or blouse. The gown completely covers you and the doctor only needs to investigate your spine and muscles of the back. Should you suffer from a problem in the upper or lower extremities, the doctor will evaluate them as well. Our examination seeks to locate and detect spinal subluxations (spinal misalignments) by doing a number of different tests. These include Surface EMG and Thermography, range of motion of the spine, postural evaluation, and spinal palpation (feeling the spine by hand to determine areas of stress and irritation).

Should the doctors feel that x-rays are necessary to further evaluate your condition, you will be referred to a state of the art digital x-ray facility in Hayward at Life West Chiropractic College.

After the examination is completed, our front office manager will schedule you for your Report of Findings visit where the doctor sits down with you and discusses your test results. In some cases that can happen immediately on the first visit. If x-rays need to be taken, it will occur after we receive the x-rays.

After the doctor presents your test results and his recommendations for care, our office manager will then offer your various financial plans for your care program. Your first chiropractic spinal correction (adjustment) will also be given afterwards should the doctor accept you as a patient, and should you decide you desire to begin your program of care. For patients experiencing considerable pain and discomfort, we may provide chiropractic care to you on the same day of your examination visit.

Your initial visit takes about 45 - 60 minutes, and your second visit which includes the Report of Findings, and your first adjustment usually takes about 30 - 45 minutes. Thereafter you can expect each additional visit to take no more than 15 to 20 minutes from the time you enter our office to the time you leave.

Thank you for choosing Dr. Jameson and Dr. Gossett as your chiropractors. We will do our best to make your time in our office pleasurable and healing. Don't forget to tell others about your positive experiences at Bayshore Chiropractic!

Bayshore Family Chiropractic Center

What To Expect on Your First Visit