Your first visit

Visiting us - how we work with you
Your first consultation with us will take about 60 minutes. On arrival you will be asked to fill out a form on existing medical conditions and your osteopath will talk to you about your condition and work and leisure activities to complete a full case history.

Your osteopath will explain your condition in full and a personal treatment plan will be discussed, estimating the likely number of sessions needed to treat your condition effectively.

Treatment will normally be commenced at the first visit along with specific advice on back care and preventative measures you can take. Specific exercises may also be prescribed.

Please wear loose and comfortable clothing, although you will normally be asked to undress down to your underwear to allow a full examination; we do provide gowns if you prefer.

A partnership
Our immediate aim is to relieve your symptoms and get you out of pain. We will then continue treatment to get to the root of the problem – which is often not where your symptoms are. In this way we will sort out the cause and help prevent your problems from recurring in the future, rather than just giving symptomatic relief which may not be sorting out why you had the problem in the first place. Your osteopath will always explain the treatment to you.

In order to provide future stability we ask that you do your best to keep to the plan given by your osteopath until they are happy that full functionality has been restored.