Non surgical Facelift

The Clinic is very pleased to announc that we can now offer non surgical facelift treatments using the acclaimed CACI-international techniues. For more information call the clinic on 01264 324924, or visit the website  www.caci-international.co.uk

Treatments and courses are available from monday through to friday.

These treatments are performed by our beauty therapist Corry, who has recently joined us and can also offer a very comprehensive range of beauty therapy treatments.

CHIROS CLINIC THERAPISTS PIONEER NEW NATIONAL ‘GOLD STANDARD’

The Bowen Technique is now recognised by the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council – a major step forward in the recognition of Bowen as an acceptable complement to conventional medical treatment. Bowen is one of only a small number of therapies so far recognised by CNHC.

MELINDA and NEIL BEAUFOY, members of the Bowen Therapists’ European Register, the largest association of qualified Bowen therapists, are now also registered with the CNHC. They have become one of the first in the country to achieve a new national standard of excellence for their therapy. It means that they are at the forefront of a national strategy to provide a guarantee of standards and safety for the public, and to encourage complementary therapy to be available through the NHS.

The CNHC was set up by the Department of Health with full government backing. It provides assurance to the public, health insurance companies, doctors and other health professionals that the Registered Practitioner has met all recognised standards for safe practise.  Registration with CNHC is seen as the ‘gold standard’ for complementary health practitioners. (www.cnhc.org.uk)

Sunday Telegraph, 2 August 2009

Comment by Nick Richmond, Chiropractor at the Chiros Clinic.

As with numerous previous newspaper articles about back pain I am frequently asked my opinions and thoughts by patients and friends.  I thought it would be useful for clinic patients if I posted a comment to represent my personal views on this and future articles.

Article in the Sunday Telegraph

Patients forced to live in agony after NHS refuses to pay for painkilling injections

Tens of thousands with chronic back pain will be forced to live in agony after a decision to slash the number of painkilling injections issued on the NHS, doctors have warned. Read more…

Naturally, I endorse the idea of GPs being able to refer to alternative practitioners such as Osteopaths, Acupuncturists, and Chiropractors for treatment of back pain, this is a great step forward for patient choice, and I believe will ultimately improve the nation’s musculoskeletal health as well as reduce NHS expediture on back care.

However, I am hugely dissapointed that conventional treatments may may be significantly reduced as a result of the NICE recommendations. I believe that injection therapy is absolutely needed for some back pain cases, where surgery is not indicated or recommended. The newspaper article suggested that a patient would  only qualify for a Cortisone injection if they had been suffering significant pain ( without known cause ) for more than a year. Having had horrendous back ache in my twenties for several months, I cannot begin to imagine how awful it would be to suffer that pain for a year or more.

The article also suggested that people in this predicament would have to pay upwards of £500.00 to have private treatment. From my own perspective, I cannot ever recall of giving a course of treatment that cost any where near that figure. However, while this might be true of some clinics and musculo-skeletal  specialists, I would like to point out that  I know of two musculo skeletal Physicians ( GPs with a special interest in musculo skeletal medicine) in the Andover area who treat in the private sector. From personal experience as well as those patients I have already referred for injection  treatment  I can happily say that these Doctors have an excellent reputation and are incredibly good at what they do. Reassuringly, I  feel that they also have a very reasonable fee structure ( and no where near the £500.00 suggested by the article).

I will leave you with this thought. It is possible that in if more patients are able to access other forms of treatment such as Osteopathy and chiropractic when conventional treatments have proved unsuccessful, then there may not actually be the need to have the amount injection therapy that is currently used. However,  I sincerely hope that the equation is allowed to find a natural balance and people are not left in excruciating pain for longer than is humanely necessary.