Average Physical Therapist fee

terminator74

I went to a PT session for the first time this week and was surprised (but didn't question) the fee of 70 euro? Whats people experience of fees charged by physical therapist? In my experience this is higher than the average fee charged by a physio, sports massage, acupuncturist and comparable to a sports physician. Session was about 50 mins long including an initial 10 min history of injury.

thirstywork2

Average would be 45-50euro in my experience.70 euro is top money for a session.
I pay 30euro and my last sessionw as 45minutes and included massage,re-alignment,dry needling and 10minutes on a compression machine.

Price wouldn't be the factor for me but more on performance.
Did you go with an injury or just for treatment?
Where you happy witht the outcome,did you discuss price before treatment?

ps pt usually stands for personal trainer

dahat

I have paid a 50 euro consult fee plus 45 each session after it,45 mins max in lenght....waste of money as it didn't do much....Physio is pricey when it does not fix or help solve the issue but dirt cheap when it does fix the issue at hand!

terminator74

thirstywork2 wrote: »

Average would be 45-50euro in my experience.70 euro is top money for a session.
I pay 30euro and my last sessionw as 45minutes and included massage,re-alignment,dry needling and 10minutes on a compression machine.

Price wouldn't be the factor for me but more on performance.
Did you go with an injury or just for treatment?
Where you happy witht the outcome,did you discuss price before treatment?

ps pt usually stands for personal trainer

Thanks Thistywork2,
Well as the first treatment I can't say much about the performance yet. Suffering from PF (that's Plantar Fasiitis ) but no discussion as to price beforehand. Im happy to pay for whatever works or improves a condition. I've had the injury since march and have laid out in the region €1k on various treatments between sports physicians, physio's, athletics therapist, PRP injections, ESWT sessions, night splints, Birkenstocks! So relative to the other professions and treatments this did strike me as expensive.

thirstywork2

Sorry to hear that,you must be going mad at this stage.

terminator74

Incredibly frustrating injury but sure I won't die it! Would give anything though to be back training especially this time of year.

W.B. Yeats

I paid 70e for a session with a physical therapist earlier this year- I thought it was pricey. Lasted about 50 min or so
I was at a physio over the summer in the Southeast and it was 45e for a 30 min session
I'm now attending a physio in Dublin who is 60e per session, usually an hour or so but very different modus operandi to the others, he has me working on strength and stretching most of the time and does limited deep tissue massage.

To be honest the fees are pricey when you add up multiple visits, some more so than others, what really grates is when the treatment doesn't work
Make sure to claim back your fees (for chartered physio anyway) against tax- 20% relief.
Physios (like many other professionals) need to get better at telling you what the cost is likely to be and how many sessions this should take +/- things going well or going badly