Most clinic pages are adjectives. This one is commitments, because a commitment can be checked against what actually happens in the room and an adjective cannot. Four of them, and the things this clinic will not do.
The first is that something gets measured before anything gets treated, and that the measurement is written down rather than remembered. The second is that the same measurement gets repeated at a named visit, so whether this is working becomes a question with an answer rather than a matter of how you feel on the day.
The third is that the number of visits traces back to a finding from your examination. If nobody can say which finding produced the number, the number did not come from you, and a plan built that way is a schedule with a clinical label on it.
The fourth is that you get told when this is not ours to treat. That costs appointments and it is the one most worth having, which is why it runs through red flag symptoms, referrals and safety.
Checkable
How care runs
How a course of care runs in Montreal
Examine and record
History, then testing, then the findings written down so there is something to compare against.
Propose, not prescribe
A range of visits with the reasoning, and the point at which it gets reviewed, before you agree.
Recheck at the point
The same markers measured again, and the result shown to you rather than summarised.
Continue, change or stop
Whichever the recheck supports, including stopping, which is a normal outcome rather than a failure.
Honest limits
What this clinic will not do
It will not claim to treat colic, ear infections, bedwetting, asthma or immune function. There is no sound evidence for any of those and they are named here rather than quietly left off a list, because a vague scope is how overreach happens in this profession.
It will not sell a prepaid block of visits, because a discount for paying upfront removes the incentive to tell you early that this is not working. It will not ask for a signature, and it will not book anything beyond the next review point.
It will not tell you that a curve has been straightened or that a bone has been put back where it belongs, because neither of those things happens. Where the evidence is thin or still argued over, the pages say so, as under children, laser therapy and plan structure.
Where to start
The pages worth reading first
Whether you are deciding where to go, wondering whether to come at all, or working out what it costs.
What people want to know about how the place works before they commit to an appointment.
Because adjectives are not checkable. A commitment to measure something and recheck it can be held against what actually happens, and a claim to be caring and dedicated cannot be.
That is the intention, because the markers from your first visit matter most to whoever recorded them. If somebody else has to see you, they get the written findings rather than starting again.
No, and the ones this profession commonly overreaches on are named and declined rather than left vague. Colic, ear infections, bedwetting, asthma and immune function are not treated here.
The recheck establishes that, and then the approach changes or you get referred on. Booking more of the same is the wrong answer and it is not what gets offered.
No. A plan is a proposal you can accept in part, decline, or revisit after a few visits, and nothing is reserved in your name beyond the next review point.
Ask what gets examined, what happens if this is not the right profession, what else is available, and how anyone will know whether it worked. The answers sort it quickly.
