You may be aware you're getting less and less hands on treatment now on the NHS. That's because we have to follow scientific guidance from National Institutue of Clinical Excellence, (NICE), and it's much easier to prove a pill works than to evaluate the complexity of delivering hands on physio for you. Also they have to consider the cost effectiveness and having a highly skilled professional delivering a course of care costs more than over the counter paracetamol.
But there are NICE guidelines recommending and proving hands on treatment helps you and it's safe. Here they are.
That's why I offer the whole range of hands on techniques at my clinic. I spent 25 years gaining the training, developing highly dexterous practice and seeing it work well in clinical care. I offer manual therapy joint techniques, including manipulations as well as soft tissue massage and myofascial release.
So if you're struggling with joint stiffness or muscle tightness that isn't responding to exercise, that's when you would benefit from hands on care the most. We will all get stiffer as we get older but we don't need to struggle we can manage and reduce this with hands on treatment, there is scientific evidence that multimodal manual therapy works.
Please feel free to drop me a message if you want to enquire about your aches and pains and would like to see if you could benefit from hands on treatment
Couldn’t agree more with this Elaine, I am a firm believer in hands on Physiotherapy, and know it works in an awful lot of cases.
It is such a shame that the NHS and some social media Physiotherapists dismiss its value