Andrews Clinic of Natural Therapies

As A Clinic

We do NOT claim to cure anything.

If anyone makes this claim to you, "that they will cure you", as far as we are concerned they should be avoided like the plague !

Our objective is to put your body in a position where it can help to heal itself, by returning to its maximum capability healthwise assisted with any of our treatment regimes that may be deemed necessary.

This is accomplished by first and foremost listening to you during case history taking, with questions about recent and past health history, taken from you personally as a patient, we do not do telephone consultations.

This is then assessed and an appropriate treatment will be suggested to you for your condition / ill health, at that time of your attendance.

You will then be treated or tested with that appropriate regime.

If after assessing you we cannot help you, then we will tell you so, we do not 'hang' onto patients.

At your next appointment you will be asked about what has happened since we last saw you as a patient with reference to your initial condition / ill health.

This is known as a continual assessment so that each treatment is targeted and tailored made for you at that particular time.

We do not have a 'set' treatment program or plan for any condition or ill health, why ?

Because this basically ignores what may have happened since your last appointment and does not allow for flexibility in treatment regimes.

It is also a dangerous way of simplifying and ignoring what the patient say's.

Interesting that the GOsC for Osteopaths seem to think differently and that their practitioners should have a set treatment plan ?

It's actually in their registration application criteria !

Which reinforces the investigation claims made by the Times Newspaper on Osteopaths and Chiropractors "a large number not taking medical histories from their patients and failing to stop treatments that didn’t work."

I leave the reader to decide which is the better - a continual assessment or a set treatment plan ?

It should also be remembered that your body will need time to start any healing process, it is not always better to have 'intensive' treatment.

You should recognise that If you didn't play the piano before treatment then you will not be able to play the piano after treatment either !

Confidentiality

If we need to contact your doctor we ask for your permission first or ask you to contact your doctor.

It is up to you as a patient to inform us if you require us to contact your doctor or anyone else.

We will not contact anyone without you asking us to do so.

Your details as a patient will not be released to ANYONE without your written consent being sent to us or given to us by you personally.

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