Manual Therapies

Tim’s Approach & What to Expect on Your First Visit

When you arrive for your first appointment a full case history will be taken.  This will include questions about your current health, past medical history and treatment. Following your case history, depending on the presentation of your current symptoms, a full musculoskeletal evaluation may be necessary.  This will involve a few simple movements to assess your range of movement and  perhaps some orthopaedic and other tests, relevant to your specific condition.  Once it has been established that it is safe for you to receive treatment, a course of treatment will be formulated specifically for you.  This may comprise of a single therapy eg. osteopathy or acupuncture,  or a combination of techniques eg osteopathy with acupuncture.  Obviously, if you only wish to receive one particular therapy, then your treatment will be based around that therapy.  Once you are happy with  what is proposed, your treatment will begin.

Your initial consultation will usually last up to 40 minutes.  Subsequent sessions between 30-40 minutes. However, treatment times vary according to the nature of patients symptoms, and consultations can be longer or shorter than this. If acupuncture is used, either in combination with osteopathy or by itself, only single-use sterile disposable needles are employed.  Patients are advised to wear loose-fitting clothing but may expect to remove some clothing to enable clinical evaluation and treatment.  Advice is often given with regard to diet, lifestyle, exercise and first aid measures that may be used to complement your treatment.  

All information divulged during the course of the consultation will remain strictly confidential and secure.