Gymophobics

Anihilator

They may well be objective. I bet the privately paid for treatment version is far less objective in the gyms favour though....

Equaliser123

Anihilator wrote: »

They may well be objective. I bet the privately paid for treatment version is far less objective in the gyms favour though....

Well your professional standards are clearly pretty abysmal then.

pmduk

Anihilator has professional standards? as a doubting cynic?

squilly15

Anihilator wrote: »

Professional or not Chiropractors tend to be employed privately as opposed to on the NHS by most and hence whilst they may not lie they will be far more sympathetic to spin it your way.

Ultimately it comes down to why if you have a genuine back complaint preventing you going to the gym are you unwilling to visit your GP for confirmation?

I didn't say I was unwilling -quite the opposite actually if you read my past comments. Looks like I will have to go to my GP to get this sorted....and I will!

squilly15

Anihilator wrote: »

Professional or not Chiropractors tend to be employed privately as opposed to on the NHS by most and hence whilst they may not lie they will be far more sympathetic to spin it your way.

Ultimately it comes down to why if you have a genuine back complaint preventing you going to the gym are you unwilling to visit your GP for confirmation?

sorry - one last reply. I actually moved office recently so the chiropractor who is helping me by writing the letters to the gym is actually no-longer my chiropracter and is not being paid to do this - so he has nothing to benefit from it. He has also taken time to suggest some new chiropracters near to my new office. Not everyone is out for themselves....

RadoJo

OP, I'm a bit confused - your gym asked you for a letter from your GP, which from your OP you seemed unwilling to provide, so asked for help here where people have suggested that you do what the gym have asked so you can cancel your membership.

I appreciate that your situation is frustrating, but surely if you had asked your GP for a letter when first asked, rather than going into your gym to try and see someone who is clearly unwilling to change their position, then it could be resolved by now. I don't think anyone here is suggesting that you are faking your back problem, just a little confused as to why you are pursuing a route which seems to be making things more difficult for you!

I hope you manage to resolve this with the gym concerned - your GP may charge you to write a letter to them, but I'm sure it will be cheaper than continuing to pay for a gym you can't use.

sav86

Never usually a problem getting a letter from a GP. Just show them the Chiropractors letters

tabskitten

The gym is totally within their rights and they have to have guidelines or everyone who simply didn't use their membership would be able to skip out of the contract.

You signed it in the first place so if they ask for a GP note you need to comply. If you really have back problems bad enough to warrent our request your GP will be able to verify this whether s/he has treated you so far or not.

squilly15

RadoJo wrote: »

OP, I'm a bit confused - your gym asked you for a letter from your GP, which from your OP you seemed unwilling to provide, so asked for help here where people have suggested that you do what the gym have asked so you can cancel your membership.

I appreciate that your situation is frustrating, but surely if you had asked your GP for a letter when first asked, rather than going into your gym to try and see someone who is clearly unwilling to change their position, then it could be resolved by now. I don't think anyone here is suggesting that you are faking your back problem, just a little confused as to why you are pursuing a route which seems to be making things more difficult for you!

I hope you manage to resolve this with the gym concerned - your GP may charge you to write a letter to them, but I'm sure it will be cheaper than continuing to pay for a gym you can't use.

OK - just to clarify, the gym have only just yesterday wrote and asked me for a GP letter - proving that I have 'longterm medical incapacity'. They didn't ask me for this at the beginning - when I asked about the possibility of ending the membership if the back problems continued past three months - I was only told that it would be unfair to other members but nothing else. I honestly wanted to attend this gym - I am not being lazy or suddenly need the money desparately.

I've also said twice in this forum that I intend to talk to my doctor but they will want to see xrays and so forth which take time to sort out - in the meantime I get charged for a service I am not using. Do you think that everything happens really quickly? - No, everything takes ages. It took the gym weeks to get back to me with a one sentence letter.

Also - despite the doubters, I think my chiropractic letter should be enough and the gym should've mentioned 3 months ago they wanted confirmation from the doctors if they felt it wasn't adequate.

tabskitten

you had 3 months hold- this seems very fair to me........

As i said, if their rules are a GP letter then those are the rules- they need to draw the line somewhere