A referral programme for chiropractors and osteopaths

Most chiropractors and osteopaths know the patient who is ready to train again and unsure where to start: the pain has settled, the appointments are spacing out, and they would rather not work out a gym programme on their own. A TriageFit partnership gives your practice a chiropractor referral programme for that patient, with a programme built around the injury they describe in their intake and a view of how they are getting on if they choose to share it.

Who can join

The partnership is open to healthcare providers, and a chiropractic or osteopathy practice registers through the same form a physio clinic uses. It takes a few minutes and asks for the practice's name, your name and a contact email, with the website, your role and roughly how many practitioners you have as optional extras. The partner link, the portal and the printable one-pager for patients work as soon as you submit.

We then check every registration by hand, may ask for evidence that the practice is a healthcare provider, and email you the outcome. No patient is asked to share anything with the practice until it is verified.

What a patient gets

A patient who joins through your link starts with an intake of about thirty minutes, which they can save and finish later. It covers their goals, their training history, how their week runs and the equipment they have, along with a body map where they mark where it hurts, which side and how badly. The injury shapes the programme from the first session, the exercises that aggravate it are left out, and the training runs in coach-designed phases of four to six weeks, with the effort each session asks for following how they are recovering.

Once a week they check in, which takes a few minutes, and a real coach reads it. Between check-ins the AI coach answers at any hour and can trim, move or swap a session, with every change a proposal the patient confirms. Coaches review form-check videos and answer questions in the group, and food and recovery are coached in the same plan.

Treatment stays with you

TriageFit coaches training, food and recovery, and it never offers a diagnosis. When something new hurts, the AI coach proposes a swap that takes the load off the area for that session and tells the patient what would mean having it examined, and it never says a pain is fine to train through. Some answers in the health screen, such as chest pain during activity, mean nothing is built until the patient's GP agrees it is safe for them to train and the patient has confirmed as much in the app.

The assessment, the hands-on work and the judgement of when a patient is ready to train all stay with you. The terms ask you to present the coaching that way to patients: optional, coaching rather than medical care, and never a condition of their treatment.

What your practitioners can see

A patient can choose to share at checkout or later in their settings. When they do, the practitioners holding a clinician seat can see their progress summary: the programme week they have reached, their last check-in, one figure for how closely they are keeping to the plan, their health scores and which way they are moving, and the energy, stress and sleep from their last two weeks of check-ins. It also carries the medications and injuries they have recorded and any blood work from the last year, and a patient who stops using TriageFit for a while is marked as disengaged on your list.

Their journal, their messages with their coach and the day-to-day training and food logs stay between the patient and their coach. Every read is logged with who read what and when, and a patient who turns sharing off leaves your list at once and keeps the full service and the discount. Keeping sight of patients who share goes through the summary in more detail, and the data flows page shows where each piece of it goes.

A patient back in the gym

Say an osteopath has been treating a patient for low back pain, and the patient wants to get back to lifting. They join through the practice's link, mark the lower back on the body map in their intake, and get a first programme with the movements that aggravate it left out. Five weeks in, a long drive leaves the back stiff on a training morning, so they tell the AI coach, which proposes a swap that takes the load off it for that session, and they confirm it. That week's check-in records the stiff morning and the session they did, a real coach reads it, and because the patient chose to share, the osteopath can see the programme week they have reached and their last two weeks of energy, stress and sleep.

What it costs, and what the practice can earn

The partnership costs the practice nothing. There is no fee to join, and the clinician seats your practitioners use come with it. A patient pays for their own membership at €50 every 4 weeks or €500 a year, less the 10% your link takes off every payment for as long as they stay.

The rules on taking a commission for a referral differ by profession and by regulator, and the ones that bind your practice are yours to apply. If yours allow it, you can switch on 5% of what each referred patient pays. On the four-weekly plan that comes to €2.25 a payment, or €29.25 for a patient who stays the year, and a patient on the annual plan earns the practice €22.50 each year. The switch is off until you turn it on, turning it on records your confirmation that it is permitted for you, and the patient pays the same either way. The revenue side of a partnership covers how commission is held and paid out.

How to register

You can register the practice in a few minutes, and the partner link and the patient one-pager are ready as soon as you submit. The clinic partnership page has the detail, the clinic partner terms set it out clause by clause, and how the partnership works follows it from registration to a patient's first check-in.