Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Treatment Memberships

Treatment Memberships
Due to the difficult economy many people have a limited income. I find many athletes who are suffering from injury, unable to do what they love, but also can't afford the needed treatments to get better. Others have some discretionary income, but wait on treatment to see if it will resolve on its own. When it doesn't, they go in for treatment, but only get treated as many times that is needed to get out of pain. There is always that conflict between injury and income.

In order to off-set the cost of treatments I have set up a monthly treatment membership. The memberships will be offered to all who are interested. The members will pay a monthly fee, and can be treated as many times as they want while I'm at the gym. I will come to the gym on certain days and hours of the week. The number of members that sign up will determine the amount of  hours and days I will spend at the gym. I can't treat everyone every week, and some members may have severe injuries that need to be treated more often. In order to solve this problem. I have decided to spend more hours at the gym for the first month. My goal, for the first month, will be to get all members out of the pain, out of the injury phase, and into the maintenance phase. After the first month I can put in a few more hours on a week to week basis when there is a greater number of members injured. Due to this time commitment, those that cancel their memberships early, will have to pay the cost of two months of membership. 

The cost of the membership is based on my treatment fees for a half an hour treatment for non-members. My non-member fees are $130 for an initial evaluation/treatment and $65 for each follow-up treatment. For the last few months I have been giving a discount of $85 for the initial treatment/evaluation and $40 for all half hour follow up visits of  all members. As of August, I will no longer be giving a members discount for those that do not sign up for the monthly membership. For a 3 month membership it will be $65 per month and $60 per month for a 6 month membership.

The the opportunity to purchase a monthly membership will be extended to all family members where at least one member of the immediate family is a paying member of the gym.

Thanks,
Dr. Wade

If you have any further questions please contact me at 805-377-1200