Osteopath services

Our services at Remedy Health

Remedy offers osteopath services for the people of East Grinstead & Reigate to people of all ages. We aim to get you pain-free and back to doing what you love.

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We offer a free 15-minute phone call to discuss whether Osteopathy may be suitable for you.

  • Initial appointment with an Osteopath: £75.
    • Appointments typically last between 45 minutes and 1 hour.
    • Including full history, examination and some treatment. 
  • Follow-up appointments: £58
    • Appointments are 30 minutes long. 
    • Including treatment and any re-examination if needed.

Please note we are cleaning between each appointment and leaving some additional 15-minute gaps during the day to do additional cleaning.

Payment can be made via credit or debit card, online payment or bank transfer. 

We are registered with all major healthcare providers including AXA, WPA, Vitality, HSA, and Allianz. Unfortunately, it is no longer viable to accept BUPA patients (with the exception of BUPA global healthcare). Receipts can be given to allow you to reclaim your appointment fees from your healthcare provider. 

 

It is natural in most circumstances to worry about your symptoms and the cause, but you can be confident that your osteopath is highly trained to screen for and to rule out more serious diagnoses. They will advise you and discuss with you any further action that might be required. Normally your treatment will begin at your first appointment, but sometimes they may require further tests first i.e. blood tests or scans. Occasionally they may diagnose something that they are unable to treat and may refer you to your GP or another appropriate health professional. 

In order to make a diagnosis your osteopath will need to examine the area(s) of your body causing discomfort. To do this effectively it is likely that we will ask you to remove some outer clothing, so we can assess the areas of the body causing concern, this will also make treatment easier and more effective. If you are uncomfortable undressing to your underwear, you can bring or wear clothing such as shorts, a vest top, or close fitting garments, that will enable us to work effectively without making you feel uncomfortable. 

Sometimes the cause of the problem may be in a different area to the pain, for example, pain in your lower arm may be linked to the nerves in your neck, so they may need to examine your whole body. To do this they will need to feel for any tightness in the muscles, joints and other tissues, but they will explain what they are doing during the session.

All of our osteopath services offer a treatment plan included within the initial consultation.

Once we have made a diagnosis, we will discuss this with you, what we can do to help i.e. what treatment we can provide, and what you can do as well.

This may involve further visits for manual therapy – a range of gentle hands-on techniques that focus on releasing tension, stretching muscles and improving mobility.

Together with exercises that you can do at home and helpful advice designed to help you relieve or manage your pain, keep active and maintain the best of health. 

Osteopaths focus on the individual patient, so the treatment you receive will be specific to you and your problem. Osteopaths use a wide range of gentle hands-on techniques to release tension, stretch muscles, and mobilize joints. These are often used together with exercise and helpful advice designed to help you relieve or manage your pain, keep active and maintain the best of health. 

After Treatment

Following treatment you may experience some mild soreness in the area of their body that was treated, this will normally go away within 48-hours. If you experience serious or unusual symptoms after treatment you should contact your osteopath straight away for advice.

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What To expect

At your first visit, we’ll ask about you in detail and about why you’ve made an appointment, which helps us to work out what might be causing your pain or discomfort. We will also take a full medical history. You may want to bring scans/x-rays, consultants letters, prescriptions with you to help you recall information accurately.

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About Osteopathy

We understand that this may be the first time you’ve heard of osteopathy, so here’s some information about osteopathy. Of course, you’re always welcome to contact us to ask us questions before your visit.

Osteopathic practice is a safe and effective form of prevention, diagnosis and treatment for a wide range of health issues. Osteopaths are highly trained healthcare professionals who are experts in the musculoskeletal system (joints, muscles and associated tissues) and its relationship to other systems of the body, they are trained in diagnosing health issues, including those which may require further investigation to keep you as healthy as you can be. Osteopaths see people of all ages from babies to the elderly and everyone in between, including pregnant women and elite athletes.

People of all ages see Osteopaths for a huge range of issues, normally the first time someone will think of coming to see us is when they have neck or back pain.

Some of the conditions that we regularly see in the clinic and that we can help are:

  • General low back pain (lumbago)
  • Arthritis
  • Sciatica
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Muscle tension, cramp & spasms
  • Headaches (that are caused by neck problems aka cervicogenic headaches)
  • Neck pain (that is not caused by an injury such as whiplash)
  • Migraine prevention
  • Shoulder and elbow pain (including tennis & golfers elbow)
  • Sports injuries
  • Circulation issues
  • Digestive problems

You do not need to consult your GP before you visit an osteopath, although you may wish to do so.

All osteopaths must be registered with the General Osteopathic Council and by law. To remain registered, they must comply with strict regulatory requirements and high standards of professional practice.

Osteopaths maintain their qualifications.

Osteopaths must also maintain regular professional development. These requirements give patients the same sort of guarantees and protection as those given by doctors and dentists. Osteopaths are trained to degree level attaining either a Bachelor of Science (BSc) or integrated Masters (MOst). Training takes a minimum of four years and includes a requirement to have over 1000 hours of clinical experience with patients before registration. Osteopaths are recognised by NHS England as Allied Health Professionals, playing a critical role in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of people of all ages, with many Osteopaths now working within the NHS.

Professional Membership

We are members of the Institute of Osteopathy, the professional membership organisation for osteopaths, committed to the support and development of the osteopathic profession. Membership of the Institute of Osteopathy affords assurances to the public, patients and colleagues, that we provide the highest quality service and care.

As a practice, we take you & your treatment seriously and we want to know how you respond to the treatment we provide, so we are taking part in a large study investigating how patients feel after treatment.  This is part of a national study of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), which are used to help us assess the clinic, and the Osteopathy as a whole, so we can all improve how we treat and how we communicate with our patients, so we’d really appreciate you taking part.

Will the information I give be anonymous?

Yes, all the information collected is anonymous, and all you have to do is complete a short questionnaire at the start of your treatment, and then complete two follow-up questionnaires: one week after the first questionnaire, and one final questionnaire at six weeks after the first treatment. The questionnaires are available either through visiting a website or by downloading an app to a smartphone or Tablet.

What do I need to do next to be involved?

If you are interested please ask your osteopath or the clinic receptionist for an information sheet/email and a code, or you will receive an email after your first appointment inviting you to take part, with a unique code to be entered when you access the survey. 

This work is part of a study being undertaken by the National Council for Osteopathic Research (NCOR). Where can I find more information about this study? Further information can be found here. 

The project lead, Carol Fawkes, can be contacted by email at c.fawkes@qmul.ac.uk or by phone on 07494059509.

All the information you provide will be treated as confidential in accordance with the standards of practice set out by the General Osteopathic Council and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), May 2018. You can see our full privacy policy here.