The first meeting

• Please enter through the door located on the parking side. You will be able to sit on a chair located in front of suite 104 near the bathroom. If the front door is locked, please send a text message to 514-582-8480.

• Please sanitize your hands with the Purell at the entrance or wash your hands with the soap in the bathroom

• The patient and the chiropractor must each wear a mask at all times. Centre Chiropratique de l'Ouest will provide you with a procedural mask to wear during your treatment.

Due to the Covid, please do not come with an attendant.

Exception :

1. Babies
2. Children under 15
3. Anyone requiring additional assistance

Thank you for your understanding

During the first visit, your chiropractor will perform the initial examination, which is the history. This also includes the health questionnaire and the information when opening the file that you will have filled out previously.

Your chiropractor will then ask you questions in order to understand the reason for the consultation in order to target your problem and find the cause of the problem.

Afterwards, your chiropractor will also ask you questions about your medical and family history as well as your lifestyle habits in order to have an overview of your overall health.

After careful analysis of the information obtained during the history and physical examination, your chiropractor can then establish the chiropractic diagnosis of the condition. Following your history, she will be able to assess whether there are any contraindications to treatment or underlying pathologies that require you to be referred to another healthcare professional. Insofar as a co-management with another health professional where a medical referral would be necessary, the chiropractor will let you know.

If your condition falls within the competence of the chiropractor, she will be able to offer you a personalized chiropractic care program according to your condition and your health goals. The prognosis involves determining your chances of recovery and estimating the time it will take to achieve it. Take the time to ask the questions that matter to you because you have an active role to play in changing your health. (1)

3 types of care:

1. Relieving care: acute, subacute, chronic, incapacitating pain, treatments requiring closer treatments 
2. Corrective care: Prescription of exercises and postural advice may be an additional tool 
3. Preventive and maintenance care: no need to have pain to consult, spine and joint chiropractic care to optimize your overall Neuro-musculoskeletal health

Source : (1) Association des Chiropraticiens du Québec - ACQ

After the explanation of the chiropractic diagnosis and the treatment plan, there would be the possibility of a first chiropractic treatment. As long as there are no contraindications to treatment or underlying pathologies for the condition requiring a medical or other professional referral, she may decide to give you a first treatment.

When you have read, understood and signed the informed consent for the chiropractic treatment, the chiropractor can then proceed with a first chiropractic treatment if time permits within the time slot of the appointment.