How many visits will I need? It is the question every new patient asks, and the one most clinics dodge. Here is how we count.
At your first visit you get a written plan with a realistic number: new complaints usually 4 to 8 visits, long-standing ones 6 to 12. The median plan for a new low-back patient in our clinic is six visits — not thirty.
Then we re-check at every fourth visit. Are you sleeping better, moving better, hurting less? If yes, we continue or space out. If the plan stops helping, we stop the plan and say so — including referring you to a physician when that looks more useful.
Packages exist ($420 for six visits) and save money when your plan calls for it, but the plan works visit by visit either way. Nobody here earns a commission selling them.