If you have a pain, injury or a concern, as physio’s we are able to assess, diagnose, treat any injury and make a clinical decision if we need to send you for further investigations such as x-rays ultrasound’s or CT’s etc.
A lot of the time as physiotherapists, we are able to fully diagnose an injury without any need for any investigations or scans. We like to refer for scans to rule out any suspected fractures or if surgery might be considered an option or to exclude any sinister underlying pathologies that we might think could be responsible for your symptoms. However, we don’t jump to imagery straight away. As we now know in the literature that you can have no pain and have an abnormal result in a scan and vise versa. In saying this if our clients insist on completing a scan for their own piece of mind we support that choice as well.
Our physios can refer you directly to the radiology clinic – Queensland X- Ray. We complete this next step and refer you on if we deem it necessary upon our results on assessments. We directly refer clients for X-ray, CT, ultrasounds mostly. There are different indications and reasons why we choose one or another.