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Why Choose Core Concepts

Our patients come from all over the country, the surrounding region and quite a few come abroad just for their treatments. It is not uncommon for some of our patient residing overseas to by for treatment as they transit through Singapore. So why do more people choose Core Concepts than any other private centres in Singapore?

Multi-Speciality Setting

We are the largest musculoskeletal rehabilitation group in Singapore because we recognised the need for a group of people with different specialities to come together. Modern medicine today is no longer works best in silo-ed environments. Conditions are often complicated that are caused by multiple factors and affect multiple areas of the human body.

Complicated conditions are best treated in a multi-speciality setting. It allows your Attending Therapist to consult his or her colleagues more widely and present you a more comprehensive range of treatments possible.

Differential Diagnosis

You often notice that something is wrong when you feel pain. Pain is symptom and an important signal that something is not quite right. However, it is not the cause of the problem. That is why at Core Concepts our first step is to determine the cause of the problem and to peel back the layers of inter-locking causes. (See “Multiple Layers of Pain“)

At Core Concepts, we believe in the ‘Thinking Physiotherapist’. We back up that belief with a substantial investment on our part to keep current at the latest thoughts and practices.

We approach each case with no pre-conceived ideas on what the problems are. Musculoskeletal conditions are often complex in nature; usually with more than one cause interacting at many different levels. (see case study)

Our ability to treat patients better, faster is first and foremost dependent on our ability for effective differential diagnosis. Differential diagnosis is the systematic method healthcare used to identify the disease causing a patient’s symptoms. In other words, part of diagnosis is attempting to narrow down the list of possible diagnoses until one emerges as the best. The term differential evolves from the word differences. The concept of differential diagnosis involves observing and discovering signs and symptoms, then progressively considering the most likely illnesses, then continuously narrowing down the possible diagnoses, eliminating one after another, until one is left with only one specific diagnosis for the patient’s signs and symptoms.

Differential Diagnosis is the process whereby a given condition or circumstance, called the presenting problem or chief complaint, is examined in terms of underlying causal factors and concurrent phenomena as discerned by appropriate disciplinary perspectives and according to several theoretical paradigms or frames of reference, and compared to known categories of pathology or exceptionality.

One-on-One Treatment Setting

At Core Concepts, each patient has their own unique appointments slot. We do not “over-book” patients at any time slots. This means that each time is treated in an un-hurried manner during their appointed times and is attended by a single attending physiotherapist. During that appointment time, the patient is not left un-attended at a machine while the physiotherapist attends to another patient.