What Can We Offer You?
The clinic is a spacious, well equipped, comfortable dedicated building, annexed from our private dwelling with separate access. Ensuring your privacy, and confidentiality. There is parking available on our private drive.
Assessment
When you attend the clinic for your first appointment you will receive a detailed assessment and examination individually tailored to your needs. Muscles, joints, nerves and ligaments will be checked as necessary. A plan of treatment will be devised to maximise your recovery - not only in the short term but also to prevent recurrence of the problem in the future. This typically includes one or more of the treatments below.
Manual Therapy
This is a carefully graded system of moving joints to reduce pain and restore normal mobility. Soft tissues may also be stretched. Techniques include Maitland Mobilisation Techniques, Manipulation, NAGs and SNAGs (an effective painless treatment method devised in New Zealand) and massage.
Electrotherapy
This can include ultrasound, Interferential and TENs machines to reduce pain and swelling and to promote and accelerate healing. Electrotherapy is used to complement the hands-on treatment and is not normally used in isolation.
Acupuncture
Fine needles can be inserted to stimulate the brain to produce natural pain-relieving chemicals called endorphins. These promote a feeling of euphoria or well being to lift the mood, aid sleep and reduce pain without the need for drugs. If you do not like needles, or are not allowed to have acupuncture for medical reasons, laser acupuncture can be performed which can be equally as effective. Only pre-sterilised, sealed, disposable needles are used to prevent cross-infection and there is very rarely any bleeding at all.
Power Assisted Micro-manipulation
A breakthrough in the treatment of back pain. Dubbed the 'Bionic Hand', The device mimics the hand of a manual therapist at 25
times the speed, and has extraordinary results for all manner of
problems.
Read all about here (Power Assisted Micro-manipulation)
Massage
Sports massage has five main benefits:
• Maintains the entire body in better physical condition.
• Prevents injuries and loss of mobility.
• Cures and restores the mobility to injured muscle tissue.
• Boosts athletic performance and endurance.
• Extends both the good health and duration of your athletic career.
Rehabilitation
Exercises are assigned to each patient according to their pain or injury. They will reflect the individual's fitness, activity levels, occupation, lifestyle and sports. Home exercises are designed to maintain the benefits of physiotherapy and to improve posture, flexibility and core stability and to prevent recurrence of the condition.
Taping/strapping
Sometimes it may be beneficial to tape a joint to reduce the strain on injured tissues and thereby reduce pain.