Darren Jenkins
What Darren will do with your first forty-five minutes: work out what is actually wrong, tell you plainly, and start treating it in the same appointment.
Before you book — three things we would rather say now
This should not wait for usChest pain, sudden weakness or numbness, a head injury, loss of bladder or bowel control, or a fever with back pain. Call 000 or go to an emergency department.
See a GP firstUnexplained weight loss, night pain that wakes you every night, or pain following a fall in someone with osteoporosis.
We do not treat this hereAcute fractures, wound care, and conditions needing surgical assessment. We will tell you and refer you on rather than book you in.
What a course of treatment looks like
- Visit oneMostly assessment. You leave knowing what is wrong, what is going to be done about it, and roughly how long it should take.
- Visit twoThe plan meets reality. What worked gets more of it; what did not gets changed.
- The last visitWhat to keep doing, what to watch for, and — usually: the strength work, because the thing that caused it has not changed.
Most problems are a handful of visits, not an open-ended commitment. If it is going to be longer than that you will be told at visit one.
Book a first visit
Call and someone who knows the diary will answer. Online booking is coming; the phone is faster today.
state · darren-fullWhen Darren's diary has nothing inside a fortnight this shows the soonest real date, and offers HealthFit in the meantime rather than an empty week.
Darren Jenkins
Founded the practice in 1998. Works out what is wrong, and treats it.
- Musculoskeletal physiotherapy
- Assesses how a joint actually moves rather than treating where it hurts, which is often not the same place.
- Twenty-five years in one CBD practice
- Has seen the same desk-bound necks, shoulders and lower backs for two decades, and knows which ones settle and which do not.
- Referral network
- Refers on to orthopaedic specialists where a problem is not his to fix, and says so early rather than late.
What happens at the last appointment
At the last treatment appointment Darren says what happens now, and for most people what happens now is strength work, because the thing that caused the problem has not changed. That is usually where Christine's name comes up.