When would video consultation be helpful?

While there are some healthcare practitioners, specifically medical doctors and nurses, whose treatment or procedure codes are reimbursed by many payers, physical therapists’ procedures or treatments are not covered. Therefore, video consultation is offered upon non-insurance payment by the patient (that is, credit or debit cards although it would include flexed spending or health savings cards.)
Don’t be misled in assuming that because this service is not covered by insurance it will be significantly more expensive or cost prohibitive. When you consider the costs of travel, time away from work or home or the time a spouse or family member might have to forfeit to accommodate you for your appointment here, our video consults many times may end up saving you money.
Our assessment and treatment approach is ideal for the telehealth application. In contrast to many approaches other physical therapists use to evaluate their patients which depend upon the therapist’s palpation (or manual “feel”) of the painful or injured part, our assessment uses the behavior of the pain during and immediately after components of the physical examination. This observation of range of movement or quality movement by both the therapist and the patient is a very reliable tool to direct care and identify the corrective program for each patient.