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duration & prices |
First
Appointment Duration: 3/4 hour
First Appointment Cost: £45
Acupuncture / Physiotherapy/Nutrition Therapy
Follow Up Appointment Duration: 30 mins
Acupuncture/Physiotherapy/Nutrition Therapy
Follow Up Appointment Cost:
£35 Acupuncture and Nutrition Therapy
£40 Physiotherapy
Allergy Testing:
76 foods £259
59 foods £179
You will be given an appointment for 45 minutes with me but it essential that you attend 15 minutes before for form filling which will be left out for you on the reception desk. This ensures that our time together is all about you, not about writing. However, it is important that I get all information about you and your condition written as comprehensively as possible so bring dates of investigations and names of Drs/ Consultants with you if you can.
Blood Allergy testing involves a 45 minute appointment plus the blood test which is sent for laboratory analysis. The assessment includes vitamin and mineral deficiency profiling, diet analysis and 5ml of a blood sample to test for food intolerance. The test is sent to the laboratory for analysis against 76 food antigens. An appointment is made usually for 2 weeks where the results are presented in a folder with an information pack of all the foods that you are sensitive to. A booklet about alternative foods and food elimination sheets are provided so that you can maintain a food diary. We will discuss a diet plan such that you replace any sensitive foods with alternatives for the period of elimination.
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| Training |
Post Grad Certificate in Acupuncture, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, London 2002
Post graduate Certificate in Nutrition for Health Professions, Raworth Centre, 1998.
BSc in Physiotherapy, Manchester University , 1985 MSc, City University , London , 1992
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Specialist
Training/Why I
trained in this field |
Acupuncture:women’s health issues, fertility, hormonal fluctuations, ME, fatigue, depression, addictions and panic attacks, tiredness, Tongue and Pulse assessment, TCM and 5 element approaches.
The holistic approach enables me to consider all the problems of the patient and make sense of them in a way that western medicine is not able to. It looks at health as emotional, physical and nutritional well-being and therefore is far more successful in my view. Assessment involves observing the tongue and taking a pulse but 12 places and in 3 ways! The main organs of the blood are represented on the tongue and therefore the presentation can tell me how your body is working and which meridians are under stress. The pulse examination is a way of backing up this process and monitoring progress of the treatment.
Nutrition:allergy testing, vitamin and mineral deficiency.
I trained in this area in response to my patients’ request for information about improving their diets, weight loss and to identify food intolerances. I didn’t have the answers so I trained such that I could offer a scientific and evidence based answer to these questions. Allergy testing is the most exciting area of my practise and has produced some amazing results in patients that have had chronic symptoms for years. They report immediate benefits and many reduce or can stop their medications for constipation, IBS or diarrhoea. If you consider that a food may be causing your symptoms then do seriously consider this test. It completely changed my life, and over 100 patients of mine have said the same.
Physiotherapy:musculoskeletal diagnosis of spinal and limb pain, sports injuries, pilates training, acute and chronic injury, return to fitness after having a baby or operation.
I trained in this area because I was captain of many sports at school and enjoyed ballet and dance! Physiotherapy is a rigorous honours degree in basic medicine with a specialist area in Rehabilitation. I did a few years working for the NHS in hospitals, such that I feel I have a tremendous medical grounding. This helps when working in the complementary field so that appropriate referral to western medicine is made when necessary. My postgraduate education has involved long courses in musculoskeletal medicine with training to manipulate, implement Pilates regimens, massage, stretch and analyse your posture. I have published articles in a variety of media, presented at international conferences, represented my profession on Radio 2 and been a member of many professional CSP committees.
I have an up to date and contemporary CPD profile.
I taught on the BSc Physiotherapy programmes at 3 universities from 1991-2005, being Head of Sports Science and Therapy at my last post in London .
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Physiotherapy is covered by most policies. You just need to quote my CSP (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, 47582) and HPC (Health Professions Council, 39074), and AACP (Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists, 4720) numbers as appropriate.
I do accept BUPA but you must speak to them and obtain an authorisation code and give your membership number at your appointment. If you are unable to do this then you must pay for the session and I will give you a receipt. Obviously you are responsible for ensuring that you are covered for the payments of the treatment and that you pay for treatments up to your BUPA policy excess.
Occasionally, I have known allergy tests to be covered by some policies so do check. Acupuncture is increasingly being covered but do check with the insurer for details. BUPA does cover Acupuncture if you have the top notch policy or if the Acupuncture has been done after a Physiotherapy assessment. Discuss this with your insurer before you make the appointment or call me if you’re unsure.
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