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Patient information
Your Treatment
When you first visit Deeping Osteopaths we will spend some time taking a medical history, which will include questions about your general health and lifestyle as well as asking you about the symptoms or injuries that you are seeking help with. With your consent they will then perform a physical examination which is likely to involve our osteopath touching areas of your body where you are experiencing pain and asking you to move around. They may also look at test results, x-rays and scan reports if these are available.
It may be necessary for our Osteopath to ask you to remove some clothing, so that they can see and touch the areas of the body causing concern. If you are uncomfortable clothing such as shorts and a t shirt, or closer fitting clothes should be worn to enable them to work effectively without making you feel uncomfortable. You can request a male or female Osteopath and you are welcome to bring someone with you into the examination room.
Our osteopath will make a diagnosis and discuss a course of treatment with you. This may involve visiting them a few times for manual therapy, some exercises that you can do by yourself and some lifestyle changes. If our osteopath believes that your condition would not be improved with osteopathic treatment they will refer you to your GP or another suitably qualified professional and may provide you with notes explaining their diagnosis and why they feel osteopathic treatment would not help you.
Is Treatment Painful?
Our Osteopaths work very hard to make treatment as painless as possible, but you may experience some discomfort during and after treatment. Your osteopath will warn you if they think that the technique that they are about to use is likely to be uncomfortable and will stop if you tell them that you are feeling too much pain.
Following treatment about half of patients report some mild soreness in the area of their body that was treated, this can usually be relieved with an over the counter pain killer and will go away within 48 hours. If you experience serious or unusual symptoms after treatment you should contact our osteopath straight away for advice.
Children under the age of 16
Children under the age of 16 years must have a parent or guardian present at their initial consultation.
Chaperone Policy
Children under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult. All of our practitioners are DBS registered. A friend or relative of a vulnerable adult wishing to accompany the patient to a consultation or treatment must first obtain the patient’s consent in they intend to accompany them into the treatment room itself.
Opening hours
Below you will find our opening hours. Home visits may be possible at a small extra charge please contact the practice.
To speak to a member of the team, please call 01778 345223.
- Monday 9.00am – 4.30pm
- Tuesday 10.00am – 7.30pm
- Wednesday 9.30am – 7.30pm
- Thursday 10.00am – 7.30pm
- Friday 8.00am – 5.00pm
- Saturday 9.00am-1.00pm
- Sunday Closed
Out of hours
We have an answering service in operation outside of our opening hours. If you call us when we are closed, please leave a message and we will call you back. Alternatively, you can email michael@deepingosteopaths.co.uk to make an enquiry.
Disabled access
At Deeping Osteopaths all our services are on the ground floor and has access and room for wheelchairs and no obstacles for physically challenged patients.