Our Service List
A short summary of the key services covered at MEDICUS can be found below. Browse the summary details or click-thru on more details to learn about each of the individual modalities.
The services listed and described within the pages of the MEDICUS website are by no means a complete and thorough conveyance of all services that are on offer. Quite simply, the best method for determining whether MEDICUS can cater to your needs is to call us today, on (03) 9851 6600.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is part of a complex, integrated healing system and is used in the treatment of a variety of conditions including pain relief, muscular-skeletal injury, diseases of the eyes, nerves, muscles, heart, and the organs of digestion and reproduction…
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Aesthetic Medicine
Aesthetic medicine is branch of medicine, distinct from plastic surgery, focused on satisfying the aesthetic desires and goals of patients. Aesthetic medicine comprises all medical procedures in the field of Aesthetics excluding all surgical procedures which require an operating table and general anesthesia…
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Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a complementary and alternative medicine health care profession concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system and the effects of these disorders on general health…
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Herbalism
Botanical medicine (herbal medicine) has been used for thousands of years. Today, 80% of the world’s population uses plants to treat illness. Many conventional drugs used today were originally derived from medicinal plants. Plants are used medicinally because generally they do not have high toxicity, accumulate in the body, or cause habituation or withdrawal symptoms…
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Homoeopathy
Along with Herbal Medicine, Homoeopathy is one of the oldest natural healing art in existence. The word ‘homoeopathy’ is formed from the Greek words, ‘omio’, meaning ‘same’, and ‘pathos’ meaning ‘suffering’. One of the basic laws of homoeopathy is that like can cure like. It was Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who first alluded to the homoeopathic effect…
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Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy is based on the theory of the mind-body connection, which means that accessing the subconscious can effect change in the body. When used in hypnotherapy, hypnosis can enhance one’s own healing potential…
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Mobilization
‘Manual Medicine’ is the use of physical therapeutic techniques applied to reversible functional disorders of the postural and locomotor systems. It uses all diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for the spinal column and the joints of the extremities to locate and treat those disorders…
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Naturopathy
Naturopathic medicine grew out of alternative healing systems of the 18th and 19th centuries, but traces its philosophical roots to the Hippocratic school of medicine (circa 400 BC). It is a system of health-oriented medicine which stresses maintenance of health and prevention of disease…
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Nutrition
The evidence supporting diet’s role in chronic degenerative diseases is substantial. Clinical nutrition, or the use of diet as a therapy in health or sickness, is at the base of naturopathic medicine. At MEDICUS the Naturopathic Physicians have their fingers on the pulse of the ever-increasing body of knowledge which support the use of whole foods and nutritional supplements to maintain health and treat disease…
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TCM
Chinese herbal medicine is the practice of combining individual herbs into formulas to promote health. Chinese medicine has thousands of herbs that may be used medicinally. Of these, about 400 are in common use…
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Pricing and Fee Structure
Pricing is for all services is P.O.A. (Prices On Application)
Costing on pathology testing can vary according to the types of tests involved. Other tests and treatments are available and the patient would be informed of the fee involved prior to the appointment.
Additionally, if contemplating booking an appointment it is important to allow for the cost of medications which may be dispensed to the patient at the conclusion of the appointment.
Payment Options
We accept cash, EFTPOS, most majo r credit cards, and offer electronic on-the-spot health fund rebates where applicable. All fees are to be paid at the end of your consultation.
Health Fund Rebates and Out-Of-Pocket Expenses
The practitioners at MEDICUS are qualified health professionals who are AHPRA registered and approved with the major health funds.
We offer instant rebates with on-the-spot electronic claiming.
If you are not able to claim electronically, we will issue you with a receipt that you can take to your fund’s office to make a claim.
Over 30 Health Funds offer rebates on selected services offered by MEDICUS! The above Health Fund logos represent only some of these.
