Plate IV
Desk & posture
The neck, shoulders and lower back that arrive by Friday. Treatment at the wharf and a desk assessment at your desk, so the cause is fixed as well as the pain.
Within 48 hours; desk visits within 10 days
Plate IV, fig. 1What we see
Most of it is routine, some of it is this week, and a few things are not us at all.
Plate IV
Seen: within 48 hours; desk visits within 10 days.
First visit from £64. Rooms two and three, up one flight of stairs; ask for the ground floor when booking if you need it. You see Daniel, Ruth or Tom.
Worse by Friday, better by Monday. The desk is the diagnosis.
Treatment at the wharf and a desk assessment at your desk, £140 together. Employers can book Daniel for a morning.
Plate IV, fig. 2Treatments on this plate
Price is fixed before you book; length is what you get.
45 minutes with a GOsC-registered osteopath: what is going on, treatment on the day, and a plan with a number of visits.
Ruth Ashdown · next Tue 08:15
£6445 minutes
Book →45 minutes at your workplace or home desk with Daniel: chair, screen, laptop, breaks, photos before and after, a one-page report.
Daniel Okafor · next Wed 09:30
£8545 minutes on site
Book →Deep, specific work on one area with Tom: calves after a run, shoulders after a week at a screen.
Tom Hallett · next Wed 18:00
£3830 minutes
Book →Plate IV, fig. 3Who you see
Every osteopath is on the GOsC register; the chiropractor on the GCC's.
Plate IV, fig. 4Before you book
Desk & posture
Stop here first
Some things are not ours, or not ours first.
Honest about the evidence
- Fifteen minutes of questions: how it started, what makes it better or worse, how you sit, sleep and work, and what you want back - Watching you move, then examining the joints and tissues by hand; the osteopath explains what they feel as they go - Treatment on the day: soft-tissue work, stretching, mobilising and, if it will help and you agree, manipulation (the click) - Two or three things to do at home, and a plan with an honest number of visits and a review point at visit three
Written inside the GOsC and ASA advertising rules, and it says so.
Something loose you can move in. For a back or hip we may ask you to strip to underwear or wear shorts; we have shorts and a gown, a towel covers you, and you can keep leggings on if you prefer. Tell us what you are comfortable with.
Only if it is likely to help and you want it. The click is gas releasing in a joint, not bone; it is one technique among many and plenty of people never have it.
Usually not. Most desks are fixed with the chair you have, a laptop riser and a separate keyboard. When a chair really is the problem we say so and name two, neither of which we sell.
Your call. Tom works deep by default and lighter when you say so; there is no medal for putting up with it.
Many do, because a DSE assessment is something they are supposed to provide. Ask, or give them Daniel's number; we invoice companies directly.
Often, but Sophie screens carefully and does not manipulate where bones are thin or the neck shows warning signs. Many over-60s do better with Karolina's gentler approach, and the triage or Grace will steer you.
Free, at the wharf
In the diary for this plate
Sudden severe back pain?
Phone and Grace answers. Say where it hurts and whether you can do mornings.
01632 960440everything else within 48 hours. No GP referral needed.
Two doors, one green
Green door, Lock Lane (ground floor)
Step-free.
Back & neck Pregnancy & postnatal Babies & children Older adults & balance Second opinion
Green door, then one flight of stairs (rooms 2 and 3)
One flight of stairs; ask for the ground floor if you need it.
Desk & posture Headaches & jaw Sports massage