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Wheelers Hill Clinic offers a variety of comprehensive medical examinations and Health Assessments to assist in making you aware of your health and how to stay healthy.

Dorevitch Pathology Services

Dorevitch Pathology is a national provider of high quality, comprehensive, pathology services and has an enviable record of high quality, built over many years.

For your convenience, this service is situated at Wheelers Hill Clinic.

 

Experienced collection nurses work closely with your doctor for a speedy pathology service. Timely reports downloaded directly to the doctor’s electronic in-box, for comment prior to inserting into your health record helps deliver an efficient service.

 

The pathology services include:

  • blood tests
  • specimen collection
  • ECG testing
  • 24hr ambulatory (heart) monitor.

 

The pathology collection service operating hours are Monday to Friday 8 AM to 1.30 PM and Saturday 9 AM to 12 PM.

 

Active Physiotherapy

Experienced therapists from a well-known and long-standing local physiotherapy clinic, Active Physiotherapy, provide on-site physiotherapy at Wheelers Hill Clinic.

There is close communication between the physiotherapists, the doctors and company – in the case of industrial injuries. This ensures optimum and co-ordinated treatment.

Physiotherapists actively manage injured workers back to full duties as soon as possible.

Psychologists

All of the psychologists practicing at our clinic bring many years of experience. They offer services across a broad range, with application to both personal and occupational health situations.

 

The psychologists specialise in counselling for depression and anxiety disorders, anger management, relationship problems, stress-related problems, including occupational stress, management of chronic pain, and assisting in the recovery from trauma. Therefore, they are well qualified to help.

Speech Pathology

The process of being able to understand and be understood is often taken for granted. Communication disabilities are the result of problems with speech, using and understanding language, voice, fluency and hearing. 

Lane is a passionate Speech-Language Pathologist, with over 30 years of paediatric experience.

 

She specialises in the assessment and treatment of toddlers, children and adolescents with communication disorders. She has varied paediatric experience including delays and disorders of:

  • developmental language
  • receptive language / understanding instructions
  • expressive language
  • articulation / phonology
  • phonological awareness / pre-reading
  • social language skills / pragmatics
  • autism spectrum disorder
  • hearing impairment

She works closely with childcare centres, pre-schools, schools, community health centres, GPs and other professionals. Rebates are available for Medicare programs (Enhanced Primary Care), plan and self-managed NDIS and from all private health insurers.

Audiology

The Sound Health Hearing Clinic helps people with hearing loss to overcome difficulties by providing expert assessment, advice and rehabilitation of hearing loss.

Audiology services include:

  • Hearing tests for adults and children from 5 years old
  • Hearing testing for Victoria Police applications, pre employment, aviation and scuba diving medicals
  • Expert advice and a full report
  • Tailored hearing solutions to meet the needs and requirements of each individual, using goal oriented outcomes
  • Free hearing aid quotations
  • Fitting the latest digital devices using state-of-the-art equipment
  • 12 months complimentary servicing and adjustment
  • Fitting custom-made ear protection plugs including musician’s ear plugs, noise and swim plugs
  • Custom ear-mould impressions for In Ear Monitors
  • Ear cleaning
  • Hearing aid checks

Consultation with the audiologist is by appointment through the Wheelers Hill Clinic.

Dietitian

Ashleigh is an accredited practicing dietitian and a member of Dietitians Australia, she completed both her undergraduate (Bachelor of Nutrition Science) and Masters of Dietetics (graduating with Honors) at Monash University in 2019. Since then she has been working in private practice engaging with a range of different patient groups. Her main areas of interest include weight management; both surgical and non surgical weight loss, type 2 diabetes, PCOS, cardiovascular health and gut related issues such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 

Cardiac Imaging

Cardiovascular Care

Total Cardiovascular Care are proud to provide our Transthoracic Echocardiogram service at Wheelers Hill Clinic.
 
Transthoracic Echocardiogram (TTE) is a common diagnostic tool Cardiologists use to visualise the heart, aorta, and other blood vessels. An echocardiogram is essentially a Doppler ultrasound of the heart, is non-invasive and does not require any patient preparation.
 
Our echocardiogram studies are performed by expert Sonographers and reported by Cardiologists with sub-speciality training in Cardiac Imaging. We provide reports with 48 hours.
 
For further information or to book please call our Knox rooms on 03 9020 0100.