EAST WEST HEALTHCARE

Helping you to develop health & fitness through

Osteopathy :  Acupuncture : Tuina  Massage : Yoga

My name is Alex and I formed East West Healthcare in 2005.  I understand that dealing with an injury or pain can be devastating to your work and family life.  

By integrating Classical Acupuncture and Tuina (Chinese Medical & Sports Massage) with Osteopathy, Myofascial Massage, Orthopaedic testing & Yoga a wide variety of strategies may help reduce and, hopefully, end your pain or discomfort.

The latest NICE Guidelines (2021) for the Management of Chronic Pain recommends a course of 5 Acupuncture treatments (together with an exercise programme and physical activity), and the 2016 NICE Guidelines for the treatment of Low Back Pain recommends Manual Therapy in conjunction with an Exercise Programme.

With both Osteopathy and Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM - of which Acupuncture and Tuina are two modalities within this traditional system of medicine) diagnosis is highly personalised and involves careful consideration of how symptoms inter-relate and weave together.

Traditional Acupuncture uses ultra-thin sterile needles at specific points throughout the body to promote healing, whereas Tuina and Osteopathy uses manual techniques.  All three disciplines also use execise and lifestyle advice (termed Yangsheng, or nourishing life, in Chinese medicine) to effect change. 

Osteopathy, Massage, Yoga and / or Acupuncture (either in combination or individually) may help with many conditions, including:

• GENERALISED ACHES AND PAINS (including hip, knee, shoulder joint, arthritic pain and fibromyalgia);
• MINOR SPORTS INJURES;
• HEADACHES (including tnesion, migraine and cervicogenic);
• GENERAL, ACUTE & CHRONIC BACK PAIN (including sciatic pain, Rheumatic pain and Lumbago)
• STRESS, TENSION & INABILITY TO RELAX
• CIRCULATORY AND DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS