"How would you like things to be?"
It's a different way to begin a patient consultation and can reveal countless new possibilities rather than, "What seems to be the problem?"
The latter will likely produce a laundry list of what isn't working in their body and their life. Your role becomes reactive, assuming responsibility for solving their problem.
But the former, creates the opportunity for thinking about an alternative future, new choices and zeros in on what's important to them. Chances are they want something more than just their headaches to stop or their back pain to go away! When you tap into what they really want, you unleash a form of motivation that makes scare tactics and energy-draining compliance techniques unnecessary.
"What seems to be the problem?" implies you have the means to "fix" them. Careful. They will be doing the fixing, if there's going to be any fixing. You're a releaser, not a fixer!