Your Visit

What to expect

Your consultation is similar to that with any medical consultation for example with your own doctor The Osteopath will take a detailed case history which will include any previous medical history such as any serious illness, accidents, broken bones or operations which you have had since birth up to the present day. Any of these may have a bearing on your current problem.

As with your GP, all personal and clinical information is dealt with in the strictest confidence.

Initial treatment

An osteopathic examination based upon knowledge of applied anatomy, physiology and pathology leads the practitioner to an appropriate diagnosis. He will then explain what is wrong with you and how he intends to treat you.

Having completed the examination the Osteopath can decide whether your problem can be treated. If it can you will receive an indication of the amount of treatment and the costs involved. If the Osteopath is not able to help you, he may ask you to visit your doctor or suggest other treatments or investigations which may be helpful in solving your problem.

Appointments

There is no fixed duration for an appointment although they are generally in the region of 20-30 minutes. Condition vary considerably in the amount of time they require.

Most people receive maximum benefit from a short course of treatment, whilst others require continuing attention to sustain relief from pain.

: Mrs McKenzie

Management Consultant

"I write to thank you for my recent session with you. The way you worked had a profound effect.

Your level of rapport with my 'body' was extraordinary, and the transformation energetically and physically in the session, and afterwards, was quite marked.

It felt as if many years of tensions just melted away and made space for a 'new way' to emerge."